Does bad pay cause occupations to feminize, Does feminization reduce pay, and How can we tell with longitudinal data?

By P. England, P. Allison, Yuxiao Wu. 2007

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Gender segregation in the labour market : root causes, implications and policy responses in the EU (2009, background): “An inevitable offshoot of this ‘matching’ is the under-valuation and under-recognition of the specific skills required by women’s jobs (Elson and Pearson 1981; England 2004).”
How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study (2019, background): “Many studies in the social sciences try to answer questions about causal relationships such as: Does bad pay cause occupations to feminize (England, Allison, and Wu 2007)?”
The Gender Pay Gap: Challenging the Rationalizations. Perceived Equity, Discrimination, and the Limits of Human Capital Models (2012, methodology): “In an analysis of real-world data from the Current Population Survey from 1983 to 2001, England et al. (2007) found evidence that feminization of occupations is associated with lower wages.”
Occupational Feminization and Pay: Assessing Causal Dynamics Using 1950-2000 U.S. Census Data (2009, methodology): “occupations’ pay and percent female (England et al. 2007).”