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A Search Interpretation of Male‐Female Wage Differentials

Author(s) -

Audra J. Bowlus

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

journal of labor economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 8.184

H-Index - 109

eISSN - 1537-5307

pISSN - 0734-306X

DOI - 10.1086/209840

Subject(s) - national longitudinal surveys , wage , differential (mechanical device) , economics , labour economics , interpretation (philosophy) , demographic economics , wage growth , computer science , engineering , programming language , aerospace engineering

A general equilibrium search framework is used to examine the role of gender differences in labor market behavior patterns (e.g., quit rates for personal reasons) in determining gender wage differentials. For samples of high school and college graduates from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), these behavioral patterns are found to be significantly different across the sexes and account for 20%–30% of the wage differentials. In particular, they play a key role in explaining the male‐female wage differential that remains after controlling for the gender composition across occupations.

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