The Gender Gap in Earnings Among Teachers: The Case of Iowa in 1915

This paper draws on the 1915 Iowa State Census Report to decompose the gender gap in earnings into explained and unexplained parts. A novel feature is that the decomposition is performed not only at the mean but also over the entire distribution of earnings. In addition, an entire state, rather than...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sohn, Kitae
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51827