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Gender Differences in Earnings & Occupation
Dr Abigail Adams
Spring 2016
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Gender Gaps
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Gender Gaps
I Trends in Earnings & Occupation Gaps
II ‘Swimming Upstream’
III Preferences & Competition
IV Discrimination
V Work Schedules
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Gender Wage Gap
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Gender Wage Gap
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Gender Wage Gap - International
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Sectors
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Sectors
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Swimming Upstream: Blau & Kahn (1997)
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Swimming Upstream: Blau & Kahn (1997)
I Narrowing of the gender wage gap has taken place in anenvironment of raising wage inequality
I Women continue to have less experience than men andlocated in lower paying occupations
I As wage premia for employment in occupations wheremen more heavily represented have risen, shouldn’twomen have become increasingly disadvantaged?
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Swimming Upstream: Blau & Kahn (1997)
I Process of technological change — Katz & Murphy (1992)find that shifts in demand for output acrossindustry-occupation cells favoured women over men forthose without a college degree and men over womenamong those with a college degree
I Decline in union coverage greater for men than women
I Supply of high-skilled women increasing faster than that oflow-skilled women
I ‘Gender twist’ in demand relative to supply might affectgains of women across different skills group
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Brief Detour: Analysing the Gender Wage Gap
I Typical approach: estimate wage regression specifying therelationship between wages and productivity-relatedcharacteristics
Y = Xβ + αZ + e
I Decompose the gender wage gap into “explained" and“unexplained" components
I Explained: differences in measured characteristics
I Unexplained: discrimination?
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Brief Detour: Analysing the Gender Wage Gap
I Unmeasured group differences might be confounding suchexercises — omitted variable bias
I Bad controls - what if face barriers to entering certainoccupations/achieving certain characteristics &
I Factors controlled for might themselves reflectdiscrimination
I Make choices about human capital & with discrimination inmind
I Productivity might depend on gender in someoccupations....
I Are prices exogenous?
I Still thought to be informative, although need to interpretwith caution!
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Swimming Upstream: Blau & Kahn (1997)I Male wage equation:
Yit = XitBt + σtθit
I Male female log-wage gap - average male-femaledifferences in variables weighted by measured malereturns and a portion due to gender differences in theresidual
Dt = Ymt − Yft = δXtBt + σtδθt
I Difference in the gender pay gap between two years canbe decomposed as
D1−D0 = (δX1−δX0)B1+δX0(B1−B0)+σ1(δθ1−δθ0)+δθ0(σ1−σ0)
I Change in X’sI Change in pricesI Change in gapI Change in unobserved prices effect
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Swimming Upstream: Blau & Kahn (1997)
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Swimming Upstream: Blau & Kahn (1997)
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Swimming Upstream: Blau & Kahn (1997)
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Summary: Blau & Kahn (1997)
I Rising wage inequality did reclaim between a third totwo-fifths of potential gains in relative wages
I Decrease in gap can be traced to improvements inqualifications, experience, occupation and a larger effect ofdeunionisation on male than female workers
I Fall in the unexplained gap - increase in unmeasuredcharacteristics, potential fall in discrimination?
I Net supply shifts also working against women’s progress atthe top of the distribution
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Preferences & Competition
I What might potential unobservables be?
I Greater risk and competition aversion of women oftenmentioned (see the wonderful review article by Bertrand)
I Selection into certain types of occupation/bargaining withinoccupations /respond to differences in pay mechanisms
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The Role of Competition: Niederle & Vesterlund
I What might potential unobservables be?
I Greater risk and competition aversion of women oftenmentioned (see the wonderful review article by Bertrand)
I Selection into certain types of occupation/bargaining withinoccupations/respond to differences in pay mechanisms
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Response to Competition
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Selecting Competition
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Caution with interpreting Test Scores
I Test scores influenced by competitive pressure
I Girls and boys with the same test scores have verydifferent assessments f their relative abilities, with boysbeing more overconfident than girls with this effect beinggreatest amongst the most gifted children (Preckel et al,2008)
I In countries that score more highly on gender equality(WEF Gender Gap Index), find smaller differences in meangap in maths scores and smaller differences in the tails
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Discrimination
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Discrimination
I Two classes of models
I Competitive - taste based and statistical
I Collective - groups acting against one another
I The economics literature almost exclusively focuses on theformer
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Taste Based Discrimination
I Becker (1957) — employers have a taste for discrimination,meaning that there is some negative value associated withemploying women/minorities
I Minority workers must therefore compensate employers bybeing more productive for a given wage or, equivalently, byaccepting a lower wage for identical productivity
I Wage differentials arise if the fraction of discriminatingemployers is large enough that the demand for womenwhen wf = wm is less than the supply of women
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Taste Based Discrimination
I Incentives for segregation – potentially Pareto improvingfor minority workers only to work for non-discriminatoryemployers
I If there are enough non-discriminatory employers thendiscrimination is competed away at the margin and womendo not work for discriminatory employers
I With free entry, discriminatory employers might becompeted out of business as they must fund the cost oftheir distaste out of their own pockets
I Profitability should be higher at firms with greater minorityemployment if not all taste-based discrimination iseliminated
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Statistical Discrimination
I Focus of most economic analysis
I Firms have a limited amount of information about theproductivity of potential employees and have an incentiveto use easily observable characteristics to infer expectedproductivity
I ‘Signal extraction problem’: employer observes a noisysignal of applicant productivity and has prior informationabout correlates of productivity
I Expectation of productivity should place weight on both thesignal and the prior information
I Equal pay for equal expected productivity
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Statistical Discrimination
I Is ‘efficient’ — optimal solution to signal extraction problem
I Economists might say that should statistically discriminateas it is profit maximising
I Equity-efficiency trade-off
I Feedback effects?
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Orchestrating Impartiality: Goldin & Rouse (2001)
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Orchestrating Impartiality: Goldin & Rouse (2001)
I Study the impacts of a change in the audition proceduresof symphony orchestras to test for sex-based hiring
I Some orchestras started using screens during soloauditions to hide the identity of applicants
I NB able to say whether sex made a difference or not butnot why
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Screen Summary
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Trends in Female Share of New Hires
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Blind Rounds — All
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Audition Blind & Non-Blind
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Results
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Coders
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Monopsony & Discrimination
I Competitive firms may have monopsony power in thelabour markets because of search frictions
I Wage setting power determined by elasticity of laboursupply to the firm
I Women thought to be more geographically constrainedthan men, resulting in more inelastic labour supply to a firm
I Result in lower female wages
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Next Week
I Flexibility and part time penalties
I Caroline : Outside Offers and the Gender Wage Gap
I Cindy: Dynamics of the Gender Gap for YoungProfessionals