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Towards a broader explanation of male-female wage differences
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Date Issued
1999-05
Date Available
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Abstract
Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage discrimination at point of entry to the labour market and also the issue of
selectivity bias. Using some recently developed techniques of Neumann and Oaxaca this paper decomposes male-female wage differences taking account of discrimination in terms of access to the labour market and also selectivity bias. It
finds considerable evidence of discrimination at point of entry but that
discrimination owing to selectivity bias is minimal.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP99/11
Copyright (Published Version)
UCD Centre for Economic Research 1999
Keywords
Classification
J31
J71
Subject – LCSH
Wages--Sex differences
Sex discrimination in employment
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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