Technology and librarianship: a test of the human capital model of occupational segregation

Marybeth Charters and Paul Grimes

Applied Economics Letters, 1997, vol. 4, issue 7, 403-406

Abstract: An empirical test of the human capital model of occupational segregation is undertaken by analysing the gender ratio of new entrants into a traditional female occupation over a period of time characterized by significant technological change. Specifically, the relative number of females receiving the terminal professional degree in librarianship is examined over the 1968-92 period using regression analysis. The results indicate that a statistically significant decline in the relative number of new female entrants occurred over this period, ceteris paribus. Thus, the human capital model cannot be rejected in this case.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1080/135048597355131

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