Browsing by Subject "Wage differentials"

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    Against the Odds: An Examination of Gender Wage Differentials in the Las Vegas casino industry
    (2008) Cheung, Elizabeth; Ball, Richard J.
    This study examines wage differentials between men and women in the Las Vegas, Nevada casino resort industry. The majority of existent literature addressing wage differentials usually reaches the same conclusion: women earn less than their equally qualified, equally productive male counterpart does. However, wages in Las Vegas may not necessarily reflect the same wage patterns found in other industries, particularly because of the heavy concentration of workers in service-related occupations. The results show that the odds are actually against women and women still usually make less than men in various occupations.
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    Does the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act change the gender wage gap in the healthcare sector?
    (2024) Spatscheck, Frida; Qian, Wei
    Despite many efforts to reduce the gender wage gap it is still the case that women earn only 84 cents in comparison to men, as the White House recently stated. This paper adds to the existing literature by trying to test whether the gender wage gap can be decreased by a policy that reduces the discriminatory mechanism. The objective of this paper is to see if the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a policy that extends the timing of filing a charge against your discriminating employer, was effective at decreasing the gender wage gap in the healthcare sector. The paper uses a diff-in-diff as the receipt number differs by the sex of the workers and a shift- share design as the receipt number differs by state to see whether the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act can decrease the gender wage gap. The data being used is the IMPUS individual wage data and EEOC state and national sex-based claim data. This paper finds that after the policy is implemented, there is no significant decrease in the gender wage gap, even though there is an increase in the number of claims filed. The results suggest that as opposed to the intention of the government to reduce the gender wage gap, there seems to be no significant change in the gender wage gap which could show that the discriminatory mechanism might not be able to explain the gender wage gap in healthcare.
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    Hispanics in the Chicago economy : an analysis of the earnings determination of Chicano and Puerto Rican males
    (2006-11-30T19:07:07Z) Craig, Sandy
    The rapid growth of the Hispanic population in recent years raises many questions about their disadvantaged economic standing in the United States and the differences in economic standing between Hispanic subgroups. In this thesis, I analyze the economic standing of Chicano and Puerto Rican males in Chicago, as defined through earnings. To this end, I examine the historical experiences of both groups in the city before turning to an analysis of their relative economic standing. Using aggregated census tract-level data from 1980 to 2000, the results indicate that earnings determinants are different for the two groups. Consistent with prior economic theory, schooling is important in determining earnings for both Chicano and Puerto Rican males, although the rate of return of schooling is greater for Puerto Ricans than it is for Chicanos. The different effects of English proficiency on the earnings of Chicano and Puerto Ricans are particularly puzzling. I argue that differences in the determination of earnings account for some, but not all, of the earnings disparity between the two groups. In combination with an examination of the historical conditions of each group, however, the economic analysis of earnings determination presented in this thesis is important for understanding the earnings disparity between Chicano and Puerto Rican males in Chicago and their relative economic standing in the city.
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    The Wage Gap Between Male and Female Physicians: Do Physicians Differ From Other White-Collar Workers?
    (2008) Campion, Taylor; Preston, Anne Elizabeth
    This paper examines the wage differentials between male and female white-collar workers and physicians over a sixteen-year period. Holding education, potential experience, marital and family status, geographical location and type of work place, women white-collar workers and physicians were still seen to have lower wages in the five years studied. Physicians, both male and female, received larger wages than other white-collar workers. On average, the gender wage gap for physicians was larger than that of white-collar workers. Over the sixteen-year period the sex wage gap decreased for both groups. In the sixteen-year period physicians’ gender wage gap decreased more than that of white-collar workers.