Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages Over Time

By Casey B. Mulligan, Yona Rubinstein. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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People Skills and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups (2014, background): “Mulligan and Rubinstein (2004, 2008) offered an alternative view on the evolution of the gender wage gap.”
Testing exclusion restrictions and additive separability in sample selection models (2014, background): “Mulligan and Rubinstein (2008) investigate two repeated cross sections (1975– 1979) and (1995–1999) of the US Current Population Survey (CPS) to determine the selection of females into the full-time work force over time using Heckman twostep estimation.”
Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure (2011, background): “1The role of industrial change due to de-industrialisation and foreign competition was also explored in some of the early studies such as Murphy and Welch (1991), Bound and Johnson (1992), and Freeman (1995).”
The Career Costs of Children (2017, positive): “There is a long tradition in economics—dating back to the seminal work of Heckman (1974) and including work by Blau and Kahn (1996), Blundell et al. (2007), Mulligan and Rubinstein (2008), and Olivetti and Petrongolo (2008)—of evaluating the selection of women into the labor market.”
Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross‐Country Analysis of Gender Gaps (2006, positive): “Mulligan and Rubinstein (2008) also argue that the narrowing of the gender wage gap in the United States during 1975–2001 may be a direct impact of progressive selection into employment of high-wage women, in turn attracted by widening within-gender wage dispersion.”
Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence from 1980-2000 (2014, positive): “Many explanations have been proposed for this, including increased positive selection of women into the labor market (Mulligan and Rubinstein, 2008), an improved match between women’s actual and potential experience due to their greater labor force attachment (O’Neill and Polacheck, 1993; Bailey,…”
Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work (2007, background): “Overall, the decompositions suggest that task changes have occurred primarily within occupa- 20 See recent work by Mulligan and Rubinstein (2008).”
Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families (2015, background): “28 Mulligan and Rubinstein (2008) found a positive selection in the female workforce since the 1990s.”
Gender Differences in Education (2012, background): “Moreover, as reported by Mulligan and Rubinstein (2008), the composition of female labor force has changed.”