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The Gender Earnings Gap for US Physicians: Has Equality been Achieved?
Author(s) -
Bashaw David J.,
Heywood John S.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00169
Subject(s) - earnings , wage , measure (data warehouse) , fallacy , work (physics) , economics , demographic economics , labour economics , econometrics , accounting , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , database
Recent work examining a constructed hourly wage measure indicates gender earnings equality among US physicians. Yet, physicians are not typically paid by the hour and the constructed measure fails to capture the true influence of hours worked and presents a fallacy of composition. When the earnings specification replaces the constructed wage measure with annual earnings or is modified to properly include hours worked, earnings equality vanishes and large gender differentials reappear.