The Gender Wage Gap: What has Happened Between 1973 and 1990 in Australia?

S. Spilsbury and Michael P Kidd ()

Working Papers from Tasmania - Department of Economics

Abstract: The current study examines the change in the gender wage gap in Australia over the period 1973 to 1990. The Juhn and Pierce (1991) decomposition is used in order to evaluate the role and relative contribution of changes in observed and unobserved skills and their prices.

Keywords: WAGES; WOMEN; LABOUR MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996

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