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Gender Segregation: Analysis across Sectoral-Dominance in the UK Labour Market
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper aims to evaluate how changing patterns of sectoral gender segregation play a role in accounting for women's employment contracts and wages in the UK between 2005 and 2020. We then study wage differentials in gender-specific dominated sectors. We found that the propensity of women to be distributed differently across sectors is a major factor contributing to explaining the differences in wages and contract opportunities. Hence, the disproportion of women in female-dominated sectors implies contractual features and lower wages typical of that sector, on average, for all workers. This difference is primarily explained by "persistent discriminatory constraints", while human capital-related characteristics play a minor role. However, wage differentials would shrink if workers had the same potential and residual wages as men in male-dominated sectors. Moreover, this does not happen at the top of the wage distribution, where wage differentials among women working in female-dominated sectors are always more pronounced than those of men.<br />Comment: 22 pages, 6 tables and 5 figures in text
- Subjects :
- Economics - General Economics
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2303.04539
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-024-02611-1