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Monopsony, Mobility, and Sex Differences in Pay: Missouri School Teachers

Author(s) -

Michael R. Ransom,

Val E. Lambson

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

american economic review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1944-7981

pISSN - 0002-8282

DOI - 10.1257/aer.101.3.454

Subject(s) - salary , monopsony , differential (mechanical device) , schedule , demographic economics , economics , labour economics , psychology , management , engineering , market economy , aerospace engineering

We examine the sex differences in the pay of school teachers in Missouri. In Missouri school districts, pay is determined by a salary schedule that maps teaching experience and education level of an individual to a salary level. In spite of this apparently mechanical rule for determining pay, female teachers earn less than male teachers, after controlling for experience and education. We explore how such a difference could arise from differential job mobility and find some evidence to support this idea. However, within district differences in pay are a more important source of differences in pay between men and women.

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