Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France

Donald Cox () and John Vincent Nye

The Journal of Economic History, 1989, vol. 49, issue 04, pages 903-920

Abstract: Traditional male-female wage discrimination measures rely on residuals from earnings functions that standardize for observable characteristics. But many productivity determinants are unobservable, and existing proxies for them are often difficult to interpret. Instead of using the earnings-function approach, we estimate production functions, using data from the 1839 65 French industry censuses for textiles. While most of our findings cast doubt on the idea of discrimination against women in pay, they do not rule out some other forms of discrimination, such as occupational segregation.

Date: 1989
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