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Can a Regional Perspective Explain the Gender Wage Gap?
Can a Regional Perspective Explain the Gender Wage Gap?
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105636
- ISBN
- 9798297981843
- DDC
- 352
- 저자명
- Jiang, Xinyun.
- 서명/저자
- Can a Regional Perspective Explain the Gender Wage Gap?
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The Ohio State University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 123 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Motoyama, Yasuyuki.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Wage inequality between male and female workers has been explained by gender differences in human capital characteristics such as educational attainment, occupation and working hours or by discrimination against female workers due to social norms. This dissertation goes beyond traditional explanations and explores the gender wage gap from a regional perspective. Thus, this dissertation emphasizes the unexplained part of the gender wage gap at regional level (i.e., regional wage discrimination) after isolating as many individual characteristics as possible.After examining the unexplained gender wage gap across metropolitan statistical areas, a significant regional variation in wage discrimination is observed and characteristics such as regional share of well-educated women, regional share of Hispanics and childcare demand are identified as associated factors. We find that metros with more well-educated women, more Hispanics, and fewer households with childcare needs are less likely to discriminate against female workers.In addition, it adds a temporal aspect to analyze the shift in regional gender wage gap through the COVID-19 pandemic. We also find that the wage discrimination at regional level increased in average through the pandemic, however, the pandemic did not change the association between regional factors and its wage discrimination. Specifically, a high regional childcare demand is associated with a large wage discrimination against female workers.To research how regional childcare condition contributes to its gender wage gap, we combine regional childcare demand as well as childcare service supply to comprehensively measure a region's childcare condition and conduct a decomposition of individual wage regression results. Results show that a half of the total gender wage gap cannot be explained by the observed gender differences in individual and regional characteristics, and regional childcare service supply plays a significant role in reducing the unexplained part of the gender wage gap, since female workers can benefit more from the existence of local childcare service than male workers.This dissertation about the gender wage gap emphasizes regional variation. Thus, policy implications based on findings should be sensitive to regional differences and address locally specific challenges. To ameliorate discrimination against female workers and reduce gender inequality, it is suggested that 1) more educational support should be provided to female workers, 2) female workers at regions with a high demand for childcare are allowed to work flexibly, and male workers are encouraged to take paternity leave with their wives, 3) and those regions should be equipped with sufficient childcare services.
- 일반주제명
- Regional studies
- 일반주제명
- Urban planning
- 키워드
- Wage inequality
- 기타저자
- The Ohio State University City and Regional Planning
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05B.
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■653 ▼aWage inequality
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