Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds

By Richard Blundell, A. Gosling, Hidehiko Ichimura, C. Meghir. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection into work. We show that worst case bounds can be informative. However, since employment rates in the UK are often low they are not informative about changes in educational or gender wage differentials. Thus we explore ways to tighten these bounds using restrictions motivated from economic theory. With these assumptions we find convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in educational differentials and increases in the relative wages of women.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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The Gender Gap between Earnings Distributions (2019, methodology): “Using the estimated wage functions and distributions, we formally test the assumption of a firstorder dominance relation, which is assumed in Blundell et al. (2007), and reject it.”
Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000 (2009, background): “See, for example, Keane et al. (1988), Blundell et al. (2003), Chandra (2003), Heckman and Todd (2003), Neal (2004), Blundell et al. (2007), Mulligan and Rubinstein (2008), Petrongolo and Olivetti (2008), among others.”
Partial identification of spread parameters (2010, background): “(i) Let H(F ) be as in (6) with p known, then”
Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction (2011, unknown): “Blundell et al. (2007) deal with nonrandom selection into employment by developing bounds around the wage distribution on the basis of restrictions motivated from economic theory.”
Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (2011, background): “For a discussion of bounds with selection effects see Charles F. Manski (1994) and Richard Blundell et al. (2007). and informal sectors, wage differences remain between the two sectors even after controlling for observed and unobserved characteristics of workers, and these are often attributed to th”
Nonparametric Inference Based on Conditional Moment Inequalities (2014, methodology): “A model similar to this one is used in Blundell et al. (2007) to study the distribution of female wages.”
Partial Identification Methods for Evaluating Food Assistance Programs: A Case Study of the Causal Impact of SNAP on Food Insecurity (2017, unknown): “(2000), Blundell et al. (2007), Molinari (2008), and Kreider et al.”