Understanding gender gap further

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Maria Stanfors, Lund University; Joyce Burnette, Wabash college, IN

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All-printing_workers.dta application/x-stata 7.3 MB 08/25/2019 11:42:AM
Burnette_Stanfors_Understanding-the-gender-gap-further_tables-and-figure.do text/x-stata-syntax 58.5 KB 08/25/2019 11:45:AM
Compositors-in-firms-w-min-3-cs.dta application/x-stata 2.4 MB 08/25/2019 11:45:AM
Compositors_Gender-mixed-sample.dta application/x-stata 997.8 KB 08/25/2019 11:45:AM
Printing-industry-data_varlist.pdf application/pdf 778.4 KB 08/25/2019 11:45:AM

Project Citation: 

Stanfors, Maria, and Burnette, Joyce. Understanding gender gap further. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-08-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/E111565V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary To better understand the historical gender wage gap, we investigate the wages of Swedish compositors circa 1900 using a rich dataset of matched employer-employee information with national coverage. In line with previous findings, women earned about 70 percent of men’s wages on average. Individual and job characteristics explain much of this shortfall. Firm characteristics or firm fixed effects on average explain 17 percent of the gap, though the firm mattered more for the gender gap in big cities than elsewhere. Sorting across firms is thus an important part of understanding historical gender wage gaps. While most studies conclude that a significant portion of the gender gap is unexplained, suggesting labor market discrimination, this may result from a lack of information on the distribution of men and women across firms.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms wage; gender; wage; gender; firms; wage
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Sweden
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1902 – 1903
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Undersökning av tryckerier mm 1903, Avdelningen för arbetsstatistik, HII a:1 vol 1-6 samt HII a:2 vol 1-12, Kommerskollegiets arkiv, National Archives (Riksarkivet), Stockholm.


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