Gender Based Differences in Wages

Assignment #3: Ideas & Theory

Choose a phenomenon of interest.

Gender based differences in wages.

Find a variety (three) of sources (six) that relate to that phenomenon.

Baynard, Kimberly (2003). New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data. [Electronic Version]. Journal of Labor Economics, 21, 997-922.

We use new matched employer-employee data to estimate the contributions of sex segregation and wage differences by sex within occupation, industry, establishment, and occupation-establishment cells to the overall sex gap in wages

Hartmann, Heidi I. (2000). New and Stronger Remedies Are Needed to Reduce Gender Based Wage Discrimination. [Electronic Version]. Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 1-22.

Studies indicate these potential sources of wage differentials between women and men: women have different skills and qualifications; they work in the same jobs and establishments and have equal qualifications but receive unequal pay; and they work in different jobs or establishments, where pay is low, but have qualifications similar to men working where pay is higher.

Keane, Chris (2006). The New Gender Divide. The New York Times. Retrieved September 19, 2007 from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/education/09college.html.

High school boys score higher than girls on the SAT, particularly on the math section. Experts say that is both because the timed multiple-choice questions play to boys' strengths and because more middling female students take the test. Boys also score slightly better on the math and science sections of national assessment tests. On the same assessments, 12th-grade boys, even those with college-educated parents, do far worse than girls on reading and writing.

Lips, Hilary M. (2000). The Gender Wage Gap: Debunking the Rationalizations. Women’s Media. Retrieved September 19, 2007 from http://www.womensmedia.com/new/Lips-Hilary-gender-wage-gap.shtml.

Higher levels of education increase women’s earnings, just as they do for men. However, there is no evidence that the gender gap in wages closes at higher levels of education. If anything, the reverse is true: at the very highest levels of education, the gap is at its largest, as shown in this chart.

Mano-Negrin, Rita (2004). Gender Inequality and Employment Policy in the Public Sector: A Cross-National Comparison of Women Managers’ Wages in Five Industrialized Countries. Administration & Society, 36, 454-477.

The present study draws on the Esping-Andersen approach to the classification of welfare capitalist regimes to test whether the determination of managerial wages among women varies by type of welfare