Income Inequality and Wage Differentials: A Quantile Regression Approach

The third chapter provides a descriptive analysis of the gender wage gap using quantile regression. Many studies have examined the gender wage gap in the United States but this is the first to provide systematic analysis of the gender wage gap using quantile regression over time. Using data from both the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Outgoing Rotation Group files of the CPS, I find a narrowing of the gender wage gap over time. Furthermore there is a great deal of heterogeneity across quantiles of the conditional wage distribution of wages by gender. Although the gender pay gap has declined dramatically in recent decades, not all women gained form this change equally.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Guimaraes, Juliana Ferraz

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kevin F. Hallock

• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3023066

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85508