Compensating differentials and the gender earnings gap among the less-educated
| Author(s) | Reed, Sarah E. | |
| Date Accessioned | 2018-11-20T12:18:16Z | |
| Date Available | 2018-11-20T12:18:16Z | |
| Publication Date | 2018 | |
| SWORD Update | 2018-10-17T16:03:37Z | |
| Abstract | This research focuses on the role of occupational characteristics in the occupation-specific gender earnings gap for less-educated individuals. Using data from the American Community Survey and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network, I estimate the gender earnings gap within 404 occupations and identify occupational characteristics that are associated with an increasing or decreasing gender earnings gap within occupations. I find the importance, necessity, and frequency of cooperatively working with other individuals within an occupation is associated with a decreasing gender earnings gap within occupations, whereas the amount of responsibility a worker has within an occupation is associated with an increasing gender earnings gap. I also find evidence of a relationship between the gender earnings gap and the price of temporal flexibility within occupations, with the price of flexibility increasing in the amount of time pressure a worker faces and the regularity of work schedules. | en_US |
| Advisor | Hoffman, Saul D. | |
| Degree | Ph.D. | |
| Department | University of Delaware, Department of Economics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.58088/mg33-f203 | |
| Unique Identifier | 1066341100 | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/23917 | |
| Language | en | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| URI | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2130935859?accountid=10457 | |
| Keywords | Social sciences | en_US |
| Keywords | Earnings | en_US |
| Keywords | Gender | en_US |
| Title | Compensating differentials and the gender earnings gap among the less-educated | en_US |
| Type | Thesis | en_US |