Why the Gender Gap in Wages Narrowed in the 1980s
分析1976年以来工资性别差距年均缩小约1%的原因，发现教育和工作经验等可测量特征的趋同解释了三分之一到一半的缩小，其余归因于女性工作经验回报率上升及蓝领工资下降等因素。
Since 1976, the gender gap in wages on average declined about one percent per year. This article focuses on identifying the factors underlying this trend. Three data sets are analyzed--the Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the National Longitudinal Survey. The authors find that convergence in measurable work-related characteristics (schooling and work experience) explains one-third to one-half the narrowing. The remainder is attributable to a relative increase in women's returns to experience as well as to declining wages in blue-collar work and other factors. Copyright 1993 by University of Chicago Press.