Gender Wage Disparity in the Pittsburgh Region  

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Deitrick, Sabina ; Briem, Christopher

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: American Behavioral Scientist vol. 53 no. 02 (Oct. 2009), page 239-260.
Topik: Gender Wage Differentials; Eeconomic Restructuring; Industrial Change
Fulltext: 05. Gender Wage Disparity in the Pittsburgh Region.pdf (387.1KB)

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This article analyzes the gender wage gap in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, region and possible explanations for the disparity in earnings between women and men. Today, women’s labor force participation rates in Pittsburgh mirror national averages, but the gender wage gap in the region remains larger than the U.S. average. The article places women’s role in the workforce in Pittsburgh in the context of the regional economy and its changes. The major changes in the role of women in the Pittsburgh regional economy occurred during a period of major economic restructuring of the regional economy beginning in the 1980s, lagging women nationally. Economic restructuring in an older industrial region, such as Pittsburgh, changed both where people worked and who worked. The research then compares possible explanations for the gender wage gap in Pittsburgh to the United States using the Oaxaca decomposition. The results find that in Pittsburgh, women are not as concentrated in low-paying occupations compared to the United States, but are much more likely to be working in low-paying industries compared to the United States. The authors find that the legacy of Pittsburgh’s highly specialized industrial structure and its impacts on women’s labor force participation rates still exert a force today as the regional economy continues its restructuring process.

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