A hierarchical theory of occupational segregation and wage discrimination |
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| Authors: | ML Baldwin RJ Butler WG Johnson |
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| Institution: | Department of Economics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, USA Tel: 1 252 328 6383 Fax: 1 252 328 6743 E-mail:;Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84062, USA Tel: 1 801 378 1372 Fax: 1 801 378 2844 E-mail:;School of Health Administration and Policy and Department of Economics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4500, USA Tel: 1 602 965 7442 Fax: 1 602 965 6654 E-mail: |
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| Abstract: | Becker's model of discrimination is extended to the case where men exhibit distastes for working under female managers. The distribution of women in the resulting occupational hierarchy depends on the number of women in lower occupations, the wages of male workers in lower occupations, and male distastes for female management. Thus, there exists an occupational sorting function, related to wages, that determines the occupational distribution of women. We integrate this sorting function into a standard wage equation to derive a new decomposition of male-female wage differentials and apply it to a sample of insurance industry workers from the 1988 CPS. |
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