Amber Mathews
Title: The problem with Equal pay. The purpose of this paper is to give information and a better understanding of the current issue of the wage gap, or equal pay, in society today. The current issue being focused on is equal pay. To answer the question of whether or not the topic can be researched further is that it definitely can be researched further. There are many aspects that are affected by equal pay.
Throughout history women have been treated differently and even treated as less than men. A current social issue that effects every race of women is the issue of equal pay. Statistics have found that for every one dollar that a man makes an hour a woman only makes seventy-nine cents. During 2014 there was a twenty-one percent …show more content…
To specifically measure individual productivity the authors broke down changes in the gender wage gap so they could assess the different observable characteristics. Through this study they have found that the gender wage gap narrowed by sixteen percent in the lowest decile and less than five percent in the highest decile. Through the study of the observable characteristics the results proclaimed that the changes in the gender wage gap seemed to be linked to education levels and work history. During the 1980s the gender wage gap was mainly reduced because of the increase in educational attainment. During the study, there was two time periods observed, between white male and female. There were many scenarios that were in favor of female workers, including changes in work-history characteristics. Through this approach when the gender wage gap over time is decomposed it seems to work quite well, but, when you decompose gender differences in wage growth over time you get different results with many …show more content…
During the study, there is an extension in which there was controlling for nonrandom sorting of workers into occupations and establishments. During this study and with other previous studies it shows that the gender wage gap increases as the job-cell level proportion of females increases. The women in the workplace experience wage declines, more than those of the men, as more women enter the job. When controlling for unobserved heterogeneity at the different levels like individual, establishment, and occupational it seems that there is a reduction in the size of the proportion of females in effect with women’s wages. This also leaves the effect of men’s wages insignificant or even positive. These controls, as a whole, seem to decrease the proportion effects for the wage gap overall. The related sorting analysis shows that a large part of the proportion effects can be explained by individual ability. (BARTOLUCCI, C.
Title: The problem with Equal pay. The purpose of this paper is to give information and a better understanding of the current issue of the wage gap, or equal pay, in society today. The current issue being focused on is equal pay. To answer the question of whether or not the topic can be researched further is that it definitely can be researched further. There are many aspects that are affected by equal pay.
Throughout history women have been treated differently and even treated as less than men. A current social issue that effects every race of women is the issue of equal pay. Statistics have found that for every one dollar that a man makes an hour a woman only makes seventy-nine cents. During 2014 there was a twenty-one percent …show more content…
To specifically measure individual productivity the authors broke down changes in the gender wage gap so they could assess the different observable characteristics. Through this study they have found that the gender wage gap narrowed by sixteen percent in the lowest decile and less than five percent in the highest decile. Through the study of the observable characteristics the results proclaimed that the changes in the gender wage gap seemed to be linked to education levels and work history. During the 1980s the gender wage gap was mainly reduced because of the increase in educational attainment. During the study, there was two time periods observed, between white male and female. There were many scenarios that were in favor of female workers, including changes in work-history characteristics. Through this approach when the gender wage gap over time is decomposed it seems to work quite well, but, when you decompose gender differences in wage growth over time you get different results with many …show more content…
During the study, there is an extension in which there was controlling for nonrandom sorting of workers into occupations and establishments. During this study and with other previous studies it shows that the gender wage gap increases as the job-cell level proportion of females increases. The women in the workplace experience wage declines, more than those of the men, as more women enter the job. When controlling for unobserved heterogeneity at the different levels like individual, establishment, and occupational it seems that there is a reduction in the size of the proportion of females in effect with women’s wages. This also leaves the effect of men’s wages insignificant or even positive. These controls, as a whole, seem to decrease the proportion effects for the wage gap overall. The related sorting analysis shows that a large part of the proportion effects can be explained by individual ability. (BARTOLUCCI, C.