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dc.contributor.authorLee, Jungminen
dc.contributor.authorLee, Sokbaeen
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-11-
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-16T13:11:04Z-
dc.date.available2012-10-16T13:11:04Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.pidoi:10.1920/wp.cem.2011.0511en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/64670-
dc.description.abstractBlau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and unobservable components using the PSID. They found that the unobservable part contributed significantly not only to the rapidly shrinking earnings gap in the 1980s, but also to the slowing-down of the convergence in the 1990s. In this paper, we extend their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a strong trend of changing gender composition of household-representative respondents toward more females. Second, we estimate the impact of the changing gender composition on Blau and Kahn's decomposition. We find that a non-ignorable portion of changes in the gender gap could be attributed to changes in the self/proxy respondent composition. Specifically, the actual reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement error effects.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCentre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap) |cLondonen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|acemmap working paper |xCWP05/11en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.stwLohndifferenzierungen
dc.subject.stwGeschlechten
dc.subject.stwMessungen
dc.subject.stwStatistischer Fehleren
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleDoes it matter who responded to the survey? Trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap revisited-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn646213113en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:ifs:cemmap:05/11en

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