An Examination of Labor Market Gender

Discrimination

Dr. David Schaffer & Nathan Schaffer

University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

Claudia Goldin

A GRAND GENDER CONVERGENCE: ITS LAST

CHAPTER

“A flexible schedule often comes at a high price . . .” Claudia Goldin

Age-Earnings Profile

Shrinking Wage Gap

Occupational Information Network

RELEVANT O*NET Categories

•ABILITIES

•INTERESTS

•KNOWLEDGE

•SKILLS

•WORK CONTEXT

•WORK ACTIVITIES

•WORK VALUES

RELEVANT CHARACTERISTICS

1.Time Pressure

2.Contact With Others

3.Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships

4.Structured Versus Unstructured Work

5.Freedom to Make Decisions

ReSEARCH PURPOSE

•Run all O*Net Database Characteristics with wage data

•Test the Validity of Claudia Goldin’s findings that the remaining wage gap is due to women’s desire for greater flexibility

O*NET DATA FILES

•1100+ Occupations

•500+ Characteristics

•Data Source Updates: Incumbent, Occupational Experts, Analysts

Data Conversion

•Locate crosswalks between O*Net Occupation Titles and CPS Occupation Titles

•Original Files to Excel Files

•CPS 2010 to CPS 2003

•Excel files to STATA Files

REMAINING WORK

•Run Regressions between O*Net Characteristics and CPS Wage Data

•Compare our findings to those of Claudia Goldin