التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
The Gender Wage Gap: Skills, Sorting, and Returns. |
| المؤلفون: |
HUMPHRIES, JOHN ERIC1 johneric.humphries@yale.edu, SCHRØTER JOENSEN, JUANNA2 jjoensen@uchicago.edu, VERAMENDI, GREGORY F.3 Gregory.Veramendi@rhul.ac.uk |
| المصدر: |
AEA Papers & Proceedings. May2024, Vol. 114, p259-264. 6p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*GENDER wage gap, *WOMEN'S wages, *INCOME inequality, *ECONOMICS education, COLLEGE majors, COLLEGE choice, GENDER inequality |
| مستخلص: |
This article examines the gender wage gap among college graduates in Sweden, with a focus on college major choices and precollege skills. The authors analyze Swedish register data and find that men and women tend to choose different majors, and majors with a higher proportion of women have lower average wages. College major choices account for a significant portion of the gender wage gap, but skill differences have little impact on within-major wage gaps. The study also reveals that women born between 1972 and 1977 experience an average wage gap of 18% compared to men of the same age. While educational sorting explains a significant portion of the gender wage gap, substantial gaps still persist. The analysis suggests that differences in skill prices and coefficients on covariates have minimal effect on the within-major gender gap, with most of the gap being attributed to differences in starting wages. [Extracted from the article] |
|
Copyright of AEA Papers & Proceedings is the property of American Economic Association and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Business Source Index |
