Does the level of occupational aggregation affect estimates of the gender wage gap?
The traditional decomposition of the gender wage gap distinguishes between a component attributable to gender differences in productivity-related characteristics and a residual component that is often taken as a measure of discrimination. The study of data from the 1989 Canadian Labor Market Activi...
| Publicado en: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 49; pp. 317 - 330 |
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Cornell University
January 1996
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