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You're educated, now what? The over-time effects of education on gender wage inequality
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Fan, Xueqing. You're educated, now what? The over-time effects of education on gender wage inequality. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-njxj-jv39

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TitleYou're educated, now what? The over-time effects of education on gender wage inequality
NameFan, Xueqing (author); Sturman, Michael (chair); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-05 (degree)
SubjectIndustrial Relations and Human Resources, Gender, Pay equity, Equal pay for equal work, Wages -- Women, Sex discrimination in employment
Extent1 online resource (v, 70 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionUtilizing nationally representative panel data from the U.S. (8,433 individuals, 18 years), this study explores the effect of employees’ educational attainments on gender wage inequality from a dynamic perspective. I treat education as a life-altering event that initiates a new wage trajectory by shaping wage level and setting the pace of wage growth. Drawing on human capital theory and the framework of wage inequality processes (i.e., allocative inequality, valuative inequality, and within-job inequality), I argue that educational attainments lead to differential intraindividual changes in the wage trajectories for men and women. I find that educational attainments are followed by an immediate increase in pay level and a greater wage growth rate for both women and men. After educational attainments, while women could attain a greater immediate increase in pay level by transferring to occupations that are considered more prestigious, they suffer from a slower rate of wage growth than men. I also find that the positive effect of holding prestigious jobs on wage growth is stronger when the occupations are more represented by men rather than women.
NoteM.S.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-njxj-jv39
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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