Swimming upstream: Trends in the gender wage differential in the 1980s

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Blau, FD; Kahn, LM
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209845
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 1-42
• 关键词: earnings; gap; INEQUALITY; demand; women; men

摘要

Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data for 1979 and 1988, we analyze how a falling gender wage gap occurred despite changes in wage structure unfavorable to low-wage workers. The decrease is traced to ''gender-specific'' factors which more than counterbalanced changes in measured and unmeasured prices working against women. Supply shifts net of demand were unfavorable for women generally and hurt high-skilled more than middle- and low-skilled women. By analyzing wages, we find support for the notion of a gender twist in supply and demand having its largest negative effect on high-skilled women.