The gender earnings gap for physicians and its increase over time

Constança Esteves-Sorenson and Jason Snyder

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 1, 37-41

Abstract: Male physicians outearn women by 13% at the outset of their careers and by 28% eight years later. Conflicting evidence on the existence of a wage gap in medicine stems from the earnings measure used: hourly earnings versus yearly earnings controlling for hours worked.

Keywords: Gender; Wage disparity; Wage measurement; Sample composition; Medicine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.133

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