Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market
This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999-2009. A framework of analysis provided by the overeducation/required education/undereducation literature is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for univer...
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The Centre for Labour Market Research, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology
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| description | This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999-2009. A framework of analysis provided by the overeducation/required education/undereducation literature is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect the influence of the mismeasurement of actual labour market experience in the conventional education and experience earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-335892017-01-30T13:38:02Z Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market Li, Ian Miller, Paul This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999-2009. A framework of analysis provided by the overeducation/required education/undereducation literature is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect the influence of the mismeasurement of actual labour market experience in the conventional education and experience earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33589 http://ftp.iza.org/dp6595.pdf The Centre for Labour Market Research, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology restricted |
| spellingShingle | Li, Ian Miller, Paul Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market |
| title | Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market |
| title_full | Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market |
| title_fullStr | Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market |
| title_short | Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market |
| title_sort | gender discrimination in the australian graduate labour market |
| url | http://ftp.iza.org/dp6595.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33589 |