Mathematics skill and male-female wages

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 443-456

  Mitra, Aparna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive skills; Gender wage gap; Mathematics skills; Verbal skills; Wage gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036421741     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-5357(02)00130-0     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Brown, C., Hamilton J., Medoff, J., 1990. Employers Large and Small. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
2. Brown, C., Corcoran, M., 1997. Sex based differences in school content and the male-female wage gap. Journal of Labor Economics 15 (3), 431-465.
3. Callahan, L.G., Glennon, V.J., 1975. Elementary School Mathematics: A Guide to Current Research. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Washington, DC.
4. Corcoran, M., Duncan, G., 1979. Work history, labor force attachment, and earnings differences between the races and sexes. Journal of Human Resources 14, 3-20.
5. Evans, D., Leighton, L., 1988. Why do smaller firms pay less? Journal of Human Resources 24, 299-318.
6. Fennema, E., Sherman, J., 1978. Sex related differences in mathematics achievement and related factors: A further study. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 9, 189-203.
7. Gunderson, M., 1989. Male-female wage differentials and policy responses. Journal of Economic Literature 27 (1), 46-72.
8. Juhn, C., Murphy, K., Pierce, B., 1993. Wage inequality and the rise in returns to skill. Journal of Political Economy 100 (3), 410-442.
9. Mellow, W., 1982. Employer size and wages. Review of Economics and Statistics 64, 495-501.
10. Mitra, A., 1999a. Structural characteristics of firms and industries and black white wage inequality in the U.S. economy: 1988. Atlantic Economic Journal 27 (2), 179-192.
11. Mitra, A., 1999b. The allocation of blacks in large firms and establishments and black-white wage inequality in the U.S. economy. Sociological Inquiry 69 (3), 382-403.
12. Mitra, A., (2000). Cognitive skills and black-white wages in the U.S. labor market. Journal of Socio-Economics 29 (4).
13. Murnane, R., Willett, J.B., Levy, F., 1995. The growing importance of cognitive skills in wage determination. The Review of Economics and Statistics 77 (2), 251-266.
14. Neal, D., Johnson, W., 1996. The role of premarket factors in black-white wage differences. Journal of Political Economy 104 (5), 869-895.
15. O'Neill, J., 1990. The role of human capital in earnings differences between black and white men. Journal of Economic Perspectives 4, 25-45.
16. Treiman, D.J., Hartmann, H., 1981. Women, Work, and Wages: Equal Pay for Jobs of Equal Value. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.