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,...
| Published in: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 610 - 644 |
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| Format: | Article |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Summer98
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