Period effects,cohort effects,and the narrowing gender wage gap |
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| Authors: | Colin Campbell Jessica Pearlman |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Business Administration, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea;2. Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, United States;3. Department of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University, United States;1. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1812 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208, United States;2. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, United States;3. Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;4. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, United States;5. Department of Preventative Medicine, Northwestern University, United States;6. Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States;1. Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;2. Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;1. Department of Sociology, Montana State University, P.O. Box 172380, Bozeman, MT 59717-2380, USA;2. Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 232 Life Science, Duluth, MN 55812-3003, USA |
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| Abstract: | Despite the abundance of sociological research on the gender wage gap, questions remain. In particular, the role of cohorts is under investigated. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we use age–period–cohort analysis to uniquely estimate age, period, and cohort effects on the gender wage gap. The narrowing of the gender wage gap that occurred between 1975 and 2009 is largely due to cohort effects. Since the mid-1990s, the gender wage gap has continued to close absent of period effects. While gains in female wages contributed to declines in the gender wage gap for cohorts born before 1950, for later cohorts the narrowing of the gender wage gap is primarily a result of declines in male wages. |
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| Keywords: | Gender wage gap Inequality Work |
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