Decomposing Gender Differences in College Student Earnings Expectations

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon and Cathy Remond
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Colm Harmon: UCD Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland
Cathy Remond: UCD Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland

No 201038, Working Papers from Geary Institute, University College Dublin

Abstract: Despite the increasing coverage and prevalence of equality legislation and the general alignment of key determining characteristics such as educational attainment, gender differentials continue to persist in labour market outcomes, including earnings. Recently, evidence has been found supporting the role of typically unobserved non-cognitive factors in explaining these gender differentials. We contribute to this literature by testing whether gender gaps in the earnings expectations of a representative group of Irish university students are explained by simultaneously controlling for gender heterogeneity across a wide array of cognitive and noncognitive factors. Non-cognitive factors were found to play a significant role in explaining the gender gap, however, gender differentials persist even after controlling for an extensive range of cognitive and non-cognitive factors. Nearly three-quarters of the short run and two-thirds of the long run differential could not be explained.

Keywords: Gender; Education; Inequality; Discrimination; Earnings Expectations. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C11 C23 L11 L65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2010-09-16
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