Rank regressions, wage distributions, and the gender gap.

In this paper, we propose a novel rank-based procedure to decompose changes in the gender wage gap into three components: changes in the skill distribution, changes in the wage structure, and improvements in the position of women in a “distribution of reference.” Using CPS data from 1979 and 1991,...

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Publicado en:Journal of Human Resources Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 610 - 644
Autores principales: Fortin, Nicole M., Lemieux, Thomas
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Publicado: University of Wisconsin Press Summer98
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