Gender wage differences and human capital in the early twentieth century: the case of the paper box industry in New York |
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| Authors: | Donald F. Vitaliano |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA |
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| Abstract: | Women employed in the New York paper box industry in 1913–1914 earned about 60% of what men did. This paper employs the human capital framework to analyze the wage differential due to productivity related factors versus discriminatory nepotism towards men. Years of schooling, years of experience in the paper box trade, and legislative restrictions on working hours of women account for virtually all of the observed wage differential, both for all men and women in the paper box industry, and between the skilled occupations of cutters and strippers. |
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| Keywords: | Human capital Gender pay gap New York paper box industry Factory investigating commission |
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