Labor Market Segmentation and the Gender Wage Gap  

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Hori, Haruhiko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 6 no. 1 (2009), page 5-20.
Topik: Labor Market Segmentation; Gender Wage Gap

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ134.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Differences in the occupations in which men and women are employed-i.e., occupational segregation-have been identified as a major cause of the gender wage gap. In this paper, we examine the impact of the gender difference in occupational distribution on the gender wage gap focusing on occupations. The extent of occupational segregation was measured using the Duncan index, which was found to have exceeded 50 over the past 20 years. This indicates that there is considerable occupational segregation, and in addition that the extent of this occupational segregation has changed little. In order to then examine the nature of the impact of occupational segregation on the gender wage gap, the wage function was measured including the female share of employment using individual data from the 2000 Basic Survey on Wage Structure. The analysis confirmed that wages in an occupation tend to decline as the share of female employment increases in the case of both the male and female wage functions. The impact of occupational segregation on the gender wage gap was also investigated, but it was found that only around 5% of the overall gender wage gap estimated using the means can be explained by occupational segregation.

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