Wage Differentials among Regulated, Private and Government Sectors: A Case Study

Ivy Broder and Laura Langbein
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Ivy Broder: American University
Laura Langbein: American University

Eastern Economic Journal, 1989, vol. 15, issue 3, 189-201

Abstract: This paper compares gender and racial wage gaps in the government, regulated, and private sectors, using data from a national sample of electrical engineers. The results reveal that, for blacks and whites, wage disparities due to discrimination (as opposed to disparities due to differences in human capital characteristics) are greatest in the private and regulated sectors, and nonexistent in the public sector. The patterns for gender gaps show virtually no discrimination against women in the private sector and about equal amounts of discrimination in the regulated and government sectors. No single theory of intersectoral wage discrimination can account for these findings.

Date: 1989
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