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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