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- Title
Commentary and Debate/Commentaire et deébat.
- Authors
Nakamura, Alice
- Abstract
The article comments on a paper "Gender Differences in Earnings: A Re-analysis and Prognosis for Canadian Women," by Catherine Fillmore. It is a mixture of useful descriptive information on earnings in Canada for 1931-1981. Fillmore draws three conclusions from her tables of descriptive statistics. The ratio of female to male earnings rises as the proportion of workers in an occupation who are female rises; average occupation-specific earnings for both women and men rise as the proportion of workers in an occupation; and the ratio of female to male earnings has been rising over time. The problem of concern in Fillmore's paper is long-standing gender differences in earnings. Fillmore explores three bodies of economic theory in seeking to understand this problem: human capital theory, dual labour market theory, and reserve army theory. She claims that human capital theory implies that women will be drawn to particular occupations by rising wage rates and hence that there will be a positive correlation between occupational earnings and female composition.
- Subjects
CANADA; SEX differences (Biology); LABOR market; FILLMORE, Catherine; HUMAN capital; WOMEN employees
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1990, Vol 15, Issue 4, p463
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Editorial