A Longitudinal Analysis of White Women's Wages
基于1967-1979年美国白人女性样本，检验人力资本理论关于劳动参与、兼职经历及职业性别构成对工资和工资增长的影响，发现离职后工资快速回升，净损失小，且女性职业的工资增长并不显著低于男性职业。
According to human capital theory, women's work participation decisions will strongly affect their wages and wage growth. We test human capital predictions about how labor force withdrawals, both past and prospective, part-time work experience, and working in male rather than in female jobs affect wages and wage growth for white women. We do this by estimating a wage change model for the years 1967-1979 for a national sample of white women. We find that wages drop immediately following withdrawals, but that this is followed by a rapid wage growth so that the net loss in wages from dropping out of the labor force is small. We further find that wage growth is not significantly lower in female than in male jobs, but that part-time work experience does not lead to significant wage growth, in either male or female jobs.