If hours worked vary by gender, then we expect average salary differences across genders. If we don't have observations on hours worked, average differences then show up in the coefficient on gender in a wage regression.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
A data on boy/girl pay disparity
Canadian girl doctors work 30 hr/week vs boy doc of 35 hr/week which, unsurprisingly, can show up as a pay difference: http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2009/05/gender-gaps.html#comments
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