Life Sciences
New findings reported from C.B. Mulligan and co-authors describe advances in life sciences
Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 4th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and should differentially pull able women into the workforce. Our paper uses Heckman's two-step estimator and identification at infinity on repeated Current Population Survey cross sections to calculate relative wage series for women since 1970 that hold constant the composition of skills."
"We find that selection into the female full-time full-year workforce shifted from negative in the 1970s to positive in the 1990s, and that the majority of the apparent narrowing of the gender wage gap reflects changes...
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