| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26348 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26348 |
| A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap | |
| Carolyn Sloane; Erik Hurst; Dan Black | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-10-07 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper, we exploit new data to assess gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college educated and highlight how those differences have evolved over time. We highlight new results pertaining to gender differences in the mapping between undergraduate major and subsequent occupational sorting. To perform our analysis, we introduce new indices in potential wage space that measure gender differences in major choice and separately the subsequent occupational sorting conditional on major choice. We highlight that women both choose majors with lower potential earnings (based on male wages associated with those majors) and that they then subsequently sort into occupations with lower potential earnings given their major choice. We highlight that these differences have narrowed over time but recent cohorts of women still choose majors and occupations with lower potential earnings. Differences in undergraduate major choice explains a substantive portion of gender wage gaps for the college educated above and beyond simply controlling for occupation. Collectively, our results highlight the importance of understanding gender differences in pre-labor market human capital specialization and the mapping between college major and occupational sorting when studying the evolution of gender differences in labor market outcomes over time. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26348 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584019 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Carolyn Sloane,Erik Hurst,Dan Black. A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap. 2019. |
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| w26348.pdf（619KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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