The Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults in the United States: The Importance of Money versus People
利用NLS72和NELS88两项纵向调查数据，研究自尊、外控倾向、金钱/工作重要性和人/家庭重要性四种非认知特质对年轻工人工资及性别工资差距的影响，发现性别差异尤其是金钱/工作重要性在其中起一定作用。
Using two single-cohort longitudinal surveys, the NLS72 and the NELS88, I investigate the impact of four noncognitive traits—self-esteem, external locus of control, the importance of money/work and the importance of people/ family—on wages and on the gender wage gap among these young workers. I find that gender differences in these noncognitive factors, especially the importance of money/work, have a modest but significant role in accounting for the gender wage gap. Methodologically, this paper proposes a correction to the Oaxaca-Blinder-Ransom decomposition that results in a truly decomposable approach compatible with the simple pooled regression that includes a gender dummy.