The role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers

Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing Household Sample File, this article analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution by using a quantile regression approach. The results show that there is a much larger gender wage gap among high-paid workers than...

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Main Author: Miller, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Blackwell Publishing Asia 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48352
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description Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing Household Sample File, this article analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution by using a quantile regression approach. The results show that there is a much larger gender wage gap among high-paid workers than there is among lowpaid workers. Moreover, this wage gap tends to increase reasonably uniformly when one is moving up through the wage distribution. Institutional factors, the work environment and social norms are all areas that may require attention in order to redress the undervaluation of women’s skills.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-483522017-09-13T14:22:50Z The role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers Miller, Paul Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing Household Sample File, this article analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution by using a quantile regression approach. The results show that there is a much larger gender wage gap among high-paid workers than there is among lowpaid workers. Moreover, this wage gap tends to increase reasonably uniformly when one is moving up through the wage distribution. Institutional factors, the work environment and social norms are all areas that may require attention in order to redress the undervaluation of women’s skills. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48352 10.1080/01490400500227308 Blackwell Publishing Asia restricted
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The role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers
title The role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers
title_full The role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers
title_fullStr The role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers
title_full_unstemmed The role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers
title_short The role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers
title_sort role of gender among low-paid and high-paid workers
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