Trends in Earnings Differentials by Gender, 1971-1981

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3223365
AutoresFrancine D Blau (0000-0001-6646-3794), Andrea H Beller
Ano1988
Volume41
Fascículo4
Páginas513
Data de publicação1988-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2523587
OpenAlexW4302046057
ISBN9793988041004
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas71
Referências citadas13

Using data from the Current Population Surveys, the authors examine earnings differentials by gender for 1971 and 1981. Most observers, focusing on the median annual earnings of year-round, full-time workers, have concluded that the earnings differential did not change over that decade. Using a different method to adjust for gender differences in hours and weeks worked, the authors find, on the contrary, that the female-male earnings ratio significantly increased during the 1970s. The results suggest that declining gender role specialization and declining discrimination (as conventionally measured) contributed to the observed trend. Two factors that worked in the opposite direction, though to smaller effect, were declines in women's relative returns to education and to employment in male jobs and integrated jobs

Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Differential (mechanical device) · Earnings · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Male female · Population · Sociology · Accounting · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Geology · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis