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Gender Roles, Occupational Choice and Gender Wage Differential *
Author(s) -
VELLA FRANCIS
Publication year - 1993
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.1475-4932.1993.tb02119.x
Subject(s) - differential (mechanical device) , wage , compensating differential , labour economics , economics , occupational segregation , perception , distribution (mathematics) , demographic economics , psychology , efficiency wage , wage share , engineering , aerospace engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , neuroscience
This paper addresses the impact of occupational choice and the perception of gender roles on the gender wage differential. We examine the effect of occupational choice upon the level of wages and investigate the determinants of occupational choice. The evidence supports earlier findings that the wage differential is caused by demand discrimination within occupations. We also conclude that if females had a less traditional attitude towards their role in the labour market they would generate an occupational distribution that would produce a higher wage