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Determinants of Occupational Earnings in the United States: A Causal Modeling Approach

dc.contributor.authorFryxell, Gerald E.
dc.contributor.authorMentzer, Marc S.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-18T21:43:29Z
dc.date.available2023-01-18T21:43:29Z
dc.date.issued1989-06
dc.description.abstractThe "comparable worth" controversy has raised the issue of the fairness of labor markets: Are predominantly female occupations paid less than predominantly male occupations because they are less demanding, or because they are predominantly female? Unfortunately, previous methodologies have failed to account for complex interactions among such variables as seasonality, education, and the different facets of job difficulty. In this paper a causal modeling approach on U.S. data is used in an attempt to disentangle these multiple effects. The results indicate that the strongest direct effects on occupational earnings is educational attainment; this is followed by labor force stability, male domination, and least of all, job difficulty. The results indicate that the female composition of an occupation has a large and negative direct effect on earnings and has a greater overall influence than job difficulty.en_US
dc.description.versionPeer Revieweden_US
dc.identifier.citationFryxell, Gerald E., & Mentzer, Marc S. 1989. Determinants of Occupational Earnings in the United States: A Causal Modeling Approach. International Journal of Management (UK) (ISSN 0813-0183), 6(2), 216-227.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0813-0183
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/14425
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Managementen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectcomparable worthen_US
dc.subjectpay equityen_US
dc.subjectcausal modelingen_US
dc.subjectLISRELen_US
dc.titleDeterminants of Occupational Earnings in the United States: A Causal Modeling Approachen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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