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Compensating Differentials for Gender-Specific Job Injury Risks
(The American Economic Review, 1998)
Women have largely been excluded from analyses of compensating differentials for
job risk since they are predominantly employed in safer, white-collar occupations.
New data reveal that their injury experience is considerable. ...
Male-Female Differences in Hourly Wages: The Role of Human Capital, Working Conditions, and Housework
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991)
This study uses a new data set from a 1986 survey of workers to examine simultaneously the wage effects of human capital, household responsibilities, working conditions, and on-the-job training. The analysis suggests that ...
Job Matching and Women's Wage-Tenure Profile
(Applied Economics, 1994)
Recently, researchers have challenged the validity of the dominant theories of wage growth, claiming that the observed positive relation between wages and tenure is an artefact of omitted job match quality. In sharp contrast ...