Research Catalog

Title

Exploring the reasons behind the narrowing gender gap in earnings / Elaine Sorensen.

Author

Sorensen, Elaine Joy.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by University Press of America, c1991.

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Details

Description

xi, 163 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Urban Institute report, 0897-7399 ; 91-2

Uniform Title

Urban Institute report 91-2.

Subject

• Geschichte 1973-1991
• Wages > Women > United States
• Equal pay for equal work > United States
• Women > Employment > United States

Note

• Includes abstract.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-163).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- Objectives and Significance of Study -- Outline of Study and Summary of Findings -- 2. Why Women's Relative Pay Increased in the 1990s -- Why Women's Relative Pay Increased in the 1980s -- Trends in the Male-Female Pay Differential -- Reasons Given for the Increase in Women's Relative Pay -- Previous Empirical Research -- Research Method -- Empirical Estimations -- Decomposing the Gain in Women's Relative Pay -- 3. Well-Paid, High-Growth Jobs for Women: What Are They, Which Women Enter Them, and Why? -- Well-Paid, High-Growth Occupations for Women -- Managerial Occupations -- Professional Occupations -- Technical Occupations -- Administrative Support Occupations -- Sales Occupations -- Craft, Repair, and Precision Production Occupations -- Ten Well-Paid, High-Growth Jobs with the Largest Predicted Job Growth -- Educational and Training Requirements of Well-Paid, High-Growth Jobs -- Characteristics of Women in Well-Paid, High-Growth Occupations -- Educational Characteristics -- Demographic Characteristics -- Attitudinal Characteristics -- Labor Market Characteristics -- Factors Affecting the Decision to Enter a Well-Paid, High-Growth Job -- Research Method -- Empirical Results -- Intercohort Comparisons -- An Intercohort Comparison of Women between the Ages of 23 and 29 -- Intercohort Comparison of Young Women in 1987 and Young Women in 1973 Who Later Chose a Hipaygrow Occupation -- 4. Economic Characteristics of Continuous and Intermittent Female Workers -- Research Method -- Empirical Results -- Descriptive Characteristics -- Bivariate Probit Model Results -- Results from the Earnings Equations -- Estimated Pay Differentials -- 5. Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Appendix B.

ISBN

• 0877665079 (soft)
• 0877665060 (casebound)

LCCN

^^^90026783^

OCLC

• 22909535
• SCSB-9891810

Owning Institutions

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