Wage Appreciation and Depreciation: A Test of Neoclassical Economic Explanations of Occupational Sex Segregation*
作者:
Paula England,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 62,
issue 3
页码: 726-749
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1093/sf/62.3.726
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
I test two explanations of occupational sex segregation that have been generated from the neoclassical theory of human capital. Polachek argues that segregation results because women whose employment is intermittent maximize lifetime earnings by choosing occupations with low depreciation during time spent at home. Zellner hypothesizes that many women optimize lifetime earnings by choosing occupations with high starting wages but low wage appreciation, while men optimize in occupations with high appreciation. Both theses assert that men and women have a pecuniary reason to choose occupations traditional for their sex. Regression analyses using 1974 data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics refute both theses. Controlling for education and experience, women have higher lifetime earnings if they work in predominantly male occupations.
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