The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
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...…employment differences between men and women that has also gotten less attention, perhaps 55 Early studies highlighting the empirical importance of occupational and in some cases industry differences in explaining the gender wage gap include Fuchs 1971; Blinder 1973; Oaxaca 1973; and Sawhill 1973....
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...…male wage ratios shown in figure 2 and analyzed in more detail in table 4 are computed using a traditional Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition of male/female differences in log wages into a component accounted for by differences in characteristics and an unexplained component (Oaxaca 1973; Blinder 1973)....
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...4.3 Competition There is evidence from laboratory experiments that, on average, men are more competitively inclined than women (Bertrand 2011, Croson and Gneezy 2009)....
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...4.2 Negotiation Researchers have found that men’s and women’s average propensities to negotiate differ, with women being much less likely to do so (Babcock and Laschever 2003; see also reviews in Bertrand 2011; and Croson and Gneezy 2009)....
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...There is also some evidence that competition increases the relative performance of men compared to women when both participate in the activity, although the evidence on this is more mixed (Croson and Gneezy 2009)....
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...4.4 Risk Aversion Based on the laboratory experiments they review, Croson and Gneezy (2009) report that women are, on average, more risk averse than men.71 All else equal, occupations with more variable earnings are expected to pay a compensating wage differential to induce workers to accept the…...
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...Capitalizing on two excellent recent reviews (Bertrand 2011; Croson and Gneezy 2009), we discuss this work selectively....
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