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Sex Discrimination in the Reward for Skills and Experience in the Australian Labour Force *
Author(s) -
HAIG B. D.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1982.tb00344.x
Subject(s) - earnings , human capital , economics , labour economics , product (mathematics) , demographic economics , capital (architecture) , geography , economic growth , accounting , mathematics , geometry , archaeology
Human capital equations are estimated for males and females in Australia, which express earnings as the product of endowments and the return on these endowments. The results are used to examine the effect of discrimination on the difference in the average earnings. The effect of occupational segregation on the earnings of women is also examined.