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Gender wage differentials and the labour market for young workers : an empirical analysis using data for Ireland
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Reilly, Barry (1989) Gender wage differentials and the labour market for young workers : an empirical analysis using data for Ireland. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Little empirical evidence is available on the determinants of wages at the level of the individual for Ireland and to the author’s knowledge no such evidence is available for young workers. One objective of this thesis, therefore, is an examination of the determinants of wages at the micro level using data from a national survey of young workers recently undertaken in Ireland. The effects of education, training, region, industry and occupation are assessed. More importantly, gender wage differentials are calculated for the sample under a number of alternative assumptions concerning the treatment of occupations. In the applied econometric literature relating to the estimation of both wage equations and gender wage differentials little emphasis has focused on the appropriate treatment of occupations. In view of this, an econometric objective of this thesis is an analysis of how the gender wage differential is affected by altering the econometric assumptions underlying occupations. The sensitivity of the gender wage differential to occupational endogeneity is examined in a dichotomous framework using two contrasting econometric methods. Statistical tests for occupational exogeneity are provided and their results reported. Structural occupational models are also estimated. To assess the effects of occupational segregation on the gender wage differential a five-way occupational categorisation is employed and an effort is made to disentangle inter and intra occupational wage effects. Occupations are again treated as endogenous and a consistent estimator designed to correct for selectivity bias is employed. In both the dichotomous and the polychotomous frameworks the estimated gender differentials appear sensitive to occupational endogeneity. Finally, the issue of segregation is again addressed but this time in the context of the dual labour market. An empirical dual labour market model is estimated using an endogenous switching model with partial observability in the latent dependent variable. Sectoral differentials are calculated and the results of an informal test of rationing, a basic tenet of dual labour market theory, tentatively suggest that primary sector rationing, to the extent it exists, falls disproportionately on the young females in the sample.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wages -- Econometric models, Wages -- Ireland, Wages -- Women -- Ireland, Pay equity -- Ireland | ||||
Official Date: | March 1989 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Economics | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Knight, Ben ; Stewart, Mark B. (Economist) | ||||
Sponsors: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) ; University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||
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Extent: | 208 leaves : charts | ||||
Language: | eng |
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