Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap
利用PSID数据，分析了白人男性和女性之间工资差距随时间及整个工资分布的变化，发现低分位点差距缩小16%，高分位点缩小不足5%，且变化主要源于教育程度和工作经历。
Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, the authors analyze changes in wage differentials between white men and women over time and across the entire wage distribution. The authors decompose distributional changes in the gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed characteristics measuring individual productivity. They find that the gender wage gap narrowed by 16% at the lowest decile and by less than 5% at the highest decile. The decomposition results indicate that changes in the gender wage gap are mainly attributable to changes in educational attainment at the top of the wage distribution, with a sizable part due to work history changes at the bottom. The findings further reveal that the accuracy of the results depends on the direction in which the decompositions are performed.