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- Title
Occupational Career Change and Gender Wage Inequality.
- Authors
Moore, Thomas S.
- Abstract
This article examines the relationship between the changing occupational careers of female wage earners and gender wage inequality. Using Current Population Survey-Merged Outgoing Rotation Group data, it assesses the effect on the gender wage gap of changes in the composition and price both of care-providing occupations that are culturally associated with female labor and of managerial and professional occupations that are not part of the care economy, over the period 1979 to 2015. It finds that the rapid entry of female workers into high-wage managerial occupations, and their exit from low-wage private household work, contributed to gender wage convergence. However, the wage-equalizing effects of occupational shifts and related behavioral changes diminish over time, and wage convergence ceases after 2007. It also finds that female workers continue to be disadvantaged by wage dispersion and that most of the remaining gender wage gap arises within occupations. The concluding sections discuss the findings and their implications for closing the wage gap.
- Subjects
OCCUPATIONAL achievement; CAREER changes; INCOME inequality; WOMEN employees; GENDER wage gap
- Publication
Work & Occupations, 2018, Vol 45, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0730-8884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0730888417742691