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Male‐Female Supply to State Government Jobs and Comparable Worth

Author(s) -

Peter F. Orazem,

J. Peter Mattila

Publication year - 1998

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 - 10.1086/209883

Subject(s) - labour economics , government (linguistics) , compensation (psychology) , economics , state government , state (computer science) , supply side , demographic economics , incentive , market economy , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , psychoanalysis

The proportion of women in state government jobs and applicant pools is well explained by a model emphasizing supply‐side factors. Relative to men, women's supply is least sensitive to wages in predominantly male jobs and most sensitive to wages in predominantly female jobs. These results suggest that comparable worth policies that shift relative pay toward traditionally female jobs and away from traditionally male jobs will increase the proportion of females in male‐dominated, female‐dominated, and total state government jobs. The implication is that supply side responses need not prevent comparable worth pay adjustments from raising total female compensation.

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