TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Weinberger, Catherine
AU  - Kuhn, Peter J.
        TI  - The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
        PY  - 2006/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2007
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2007
        AB  - Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings levels at labor market entry. We find that changes in relative slopes account for about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue that this provides an upper bound estimate of the contribution of changes in work experience and other post-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap.
        KW  - wages
KW  - United States
KW  - women
KW  - experience
        ER  -