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References for Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap
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Further reading
- CONSAD Research Corporation An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages between Men and Women. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration Final Report, 2009.
- Polachek, S. W. "A human capital account of the gender wage gap" In: Grusky, D. B., Kricheli-Katz, T. (eds). The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Key references
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Polachek, S. W. "Potential biases in
measuring male–female discrimination" Journal of Human
Resources 10:2 (1975): 205–229. Key reference: [1]
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Polachek, S. W. "Occupational
self-selection: A human capital approach to sex differences in
occupational structure" Review of Economics
and Statistics 63:1 (1981): 60–69. Key reference: [2]
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Goldin, C. "A grand gender
convergence: Its last chapter" American Economic
Review 104:4 (2014): 1091–1119. Key reference: [3]
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Polachek, S. W. "Differences in
expected post-school investment as a determinant of market wage
differentials" International
Economic Review 16:2 (1975): 451–470. Key reference: [4]
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Filippin, A., Crosetto, P. "A reconsideration
of gender differences in risk attitudes" Management
Science 62:11 (2016): 3138–3160. Key reference: [5]
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Polachek, S., Zhang, X., Zhou, X. "A biological basis
for the gender wage gap: Fecundity and age and educational
hypogamy" Research in Labor
Economics 41 (2015): 35–88. Key reference: [6]
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Bertrand, M., Mullainathan, S. "Are Emily and Greg
more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A field experiment on
labor market discrimination" The American
Economic Review 94:4 (2004): 991–1013. Key reference: [7]
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Leibbrandt, A., List, J. A. Do Equal Employment
Opportunity Statements Backfire? Evidence from a Natural Field
Experiment on Job-Entry Decisions NBER Working
Paper No.25035, 2018. Key reference: [8]
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Myers, C. "A cure for
discrimination? Affirmative action and the case of California's
Proposition 209" Industrial and
Labor Relations Review 60:3 (2007): 379–396. Key reference: [9]
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Jain, H., Sloane, P., Horwitz, F. Employment Equity
and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison. Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. Key reference: [10]
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Cymrot, D. "Does competition
lessen discrimination? Some evidence" Journal of Human
Resources 20:4 (1985): 605–612. Key reference: [11]
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Das, T., Polachek, S. "Unanticipated
effects of California's paid family leave program" Contemporary
Economic Policy 33:4 (2015): 619–635. Key reference: [12]
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Polachek, S. W. "Potential biases in
measuring male–female discrimination" Journal of Human
Resources 10:2 (1975): 205–229.
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Additional References
- Beller, A. "The impact of equal employment opportunity laws on the male–female earnings differential" In: Lloyd, C., Andrews, E., Gilroy, C. (eds). Women in the Labor Market. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
- Bertrand, M. "New perspectives on gender" In: Ashenfelter, O., Card, D. (eds). Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 4B. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011.
- Booth, A., Leigh, A. "Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations" Economics Letters 107:2 (2010): 236–238.
- Bravo, D., Sanhueza, C., Urzúa, S. An Experimental Study of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class and Neighborhood in Chile Inter-American Development Bank, Latin American Research Network Research Network Working Paper, 2008.
- Cook, C., Diamond, R., Hall, J., List, J., Oyer, P. The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from Over a Million Rideshare Drivers NBER Working Paper No.24732, 2018.
- French, E., Strachan, G. "Evaluating equal employment opportunity and its impact on the increased participation of men and women in the transport industry" Transportation Research: Part A: Policy and Practice 43:1 (2009): 78–89.
- Hegewisch, A., Williams, C., Harbin, V. The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation Institute for Women’s Policy Research Fact Sheet, 2012.
- Joshi, P., Paci, P., Waldfogel, J. "The wages of motherhood: Better or worse" Cambridge Journal of Economics 23:5 (1999): 543–564.
- Maurer-Fazio, M., Lei, L. "‘As rare as a panda’: How facial attractiveness, gender, and occupation affect interview callbacks at Chinese firms" International Journal of Manpower 36:1 (2015): 68–85.
- Moreno, M., Ñopo, H., Saavedra, J., Torero, M. Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima IZA Discussion Paper No.979, 2004.
- Rosholm, M., Smith, N. "The Danish gender wage gap in the 1980s: A panel data study" Oxford Economic Papers 48:2 (1996): 254–279.
- Smith, J., Welch, F. "Affirmative action and labor markets" Journal of Labor Economics 2:2 (1984): 269–301.