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Publication Date: 2008
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The Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults in the United States: The Importance of Money versus People
Fortin, Nicole M.
Journal of Human Resources, v43 n4 p884-918 Fall 2008
Using two single-cohort longitudinal surveys, the NLS72 and the NELS88, I investigate the impact of four noncognitive traits--self-esteem, external locus of control, the importance of money/work and the importance of people/family--on wages and on the gender wage gap among these young workers. I find that gender differences in these noncognitive factors, especially the importance of money/work, have a modest but significant role in accounting for the gender wage gap. Methodologically, this paper proposes a correction to the Oaxaca-Blinder-Ransom decomposition that results in a truly decomposable approach compatible with the simple pooled regression that includes a gender dummy. (Contains 7 tables and 41 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Wages, Locus of Control, Young Adults, Salary Wage Differentials, Gender Differences, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Personality Traits, Self Esteem, Individual Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Cognitive Ability, Mathematics Achievement, Racial Differences, Computation, Marital Status, Family Influence
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