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Gender Roles, Occupational Choice and Gender Wage Differential

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This paper addresses the impact of occupational choice and the perception of gender roles on the gender wage differential. The author examines the effect of occupational choice upon the level of wages and investigates the determinants of occupational choice. The evidence supports earlier findings that the wage differential is caused by demand discrimination within occupations. The author also concludes that, if females had a less traditional attitude toward their role in the labor market, they would generate an occupational distribution that would produce a higher wage. Copyright 1993 by The Economic Society of Australia.

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  • Vella, Francis, 1993. "Gender Roles, Occupational Choice and Gender Wage Differential," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 69(207), pages 382-392, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:69:y:1993:i:207:p:382-92
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    1. Mark Wooden, 1999. "Gender Pay Equity and Comparable Worth in Australia: A Reassessment," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 32(2), pages 157-171.
    2. Joanna Swaffield, 2000. "Gender, Motivation, Experience and Wages," CEP Discussion Papers dp0457, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    3. A. Preston, 1996. "Where Are We Now With Human Capital Theory in Australia?," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 96-18, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
    4. Ham, Roger & Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja) & Wells, Robert, 2009. "Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice," IZA Discussion Papers 4193, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Kristy Eastough & Paul W. Miller, 2004. "The Gender Wage Gap in Paid‐ and Self‐Employment in Australia," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(3), pages 257-276, September.
    6. Swaffield, Joanna, 2000. "Gender, motivation, experience and wages," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 20188, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    7. Jane Harrison, 2004. "How Segregated are Australian Workplaces? Evidence from the Australian Industrial Workplace Relations Survey," Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School, vol. 7(3), pages 329-353, September.
    8. Preston, Alison, 1997. "Where Are We Now with Human Capital Theory in Australia?," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 73(220), pages 51-78, March.
    9. Kamal, Mustafa & Blacklow, Paul, 2021. "Attitudes to gender and personality in the Australian gender wage gap," Working Papers 2021-07, University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics.

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