Role of Gender in Wage Determination in the Production Sector in Japan

Abstract Using labor survey data for the year 1998, this paper attempts to estimate a gender-based earning model that is a function of age, experience, and education levels. According to the estimated model, keeping education at a fixed level, the wages of production (blue-collar) workers are a nonl...

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Published in:Perspectives on global development and technology 2002, Vol.1 (3), p.251-268
Main Authors: Yamada, Yuko, Koshal, Rajindar, Miyazima, Sasuke, Koshal, Manjulika
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Differences
Determination
Education Work Relationship
Employees
Gender aspects
Gender relations
Income distribution
Income Inequality
Japan
Labor aspects
Labor sector
Labor supply
Manufacturing
Manufacturing industries
Sex
Sexual Inequality
Wage differentials
Wages
Wages and salaries
Work Experience
Working Women
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