Comments on: The wage gap on Feministe http://economicwoman.com/2008/07/17/the-wage-gap-on-feministe/ Econometrics, gender, equity and more. Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:48:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Allison http://economicwoman.com/2008/07/17/the-wage-gap-on-feministe/#comment-251 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:42:45 +0000 http://economicwoman.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/the-wage-gap-on-feministe/#comment-251 I haven’t seen that, but it looks fascinating. I will have a look. Thanks!

]]> By: lagged_variable http://economicwoman.com/2008/07/17/the-wage-gap-on-feministe/#comment-250 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:05:07 +0000 http://economicwoman.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/the-wage-gap-on-feministe/#comment-250 If you haven’t seen it, the QJE just published an interesting paper, which argues that the gender wage gap has fallen approximately 0% in the last 30 years. Instead, it used to be that low-potential-wage (“ability”, whatever) women used to disproportionately select into the marketplace and increasingly, now, high-potential-wage do. So while average female wages have risen relative to males, the underlying returns, given other characteristics, have changed not-at-all.

Which has interesting corollaries that 1) the apparent change in the wage gap is, to a large degree, illusory, and 2) wage inequality among women (as among virtually every demographic group US) is growing.

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