MALE-FEMALE EARNINGS DIFFERENTIALS AND THE EXTENT OF WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS

Yıl 2000, Cilt: 18 Sayı: 2, 283 - 303, 31.12.2000

Burak Günalp

Öz

Using data
from a Nationa) Science Foundation survey this stüdy measures
Che extent of gender discrfrnination in the case of college graduates.
To analyze the components of the male-female earnings gap, the standard
Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition method and the Couon/Neumark extensions
of this method are employed. İn addiüon, the stüdy accounts for the sarnple
selectıon bias by using Heckman^ls îwo-stage. two-equation procedure.
The results ofthe stüdy indicate that a signifıcant portion ofthe observed
earings diffferential is attributable to wage discirimation,

Anahtar Kelimeler

Labor market discrimination, eamings differentials, malefemale wage discrimination

Kaynakça

• Arrow, K. (1973), "The Theory ofDiscrimination," in Discrimination in Labor Market& O. Ashenfelter and A. Rees (eds.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 3-33.