The impact of gender differences in occupational attainment on the relative earnings of young workers

Paul Gabriel and Susanne Schmitz

Applied Economics Letters, 2006, vol. 13, issue 10, 615-619

Abstract: This study investigates the potential influence that gender differences in occupational structures have upon the relative earnings of young women in the US labour market. The empirical methodology integrates a multinomial logit model of occupational attainment with estimated human capital wage equations across occupations. Empirical analysis of data from the 1979 cohort of the NLSY suggests that nearly two-thirds of the gender gap in hourly earnings results from men having more favourable earnings structures within occupations, relative to their female colleagues. Gender differences in occupational distributions apparently have a minor impact on the relative earnings of women.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850500401742

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