RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Declining Bias and Gender Wage Discrimination? A Meta-Regression Analysis
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 828
OP 838
DO 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.3.828
VO XXXIX
IS 3
A1 Stephen B. Jarrell
A1 T. D. Stanley
YR 2004
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/3/828.abstract
AB This paper extends, tests, and revises a previous meta-regression analysis of the gender wage gap (Stanley and Jarrell 1998). We find that there remains a strong, though dampened, tendency for discrimination estimates to fall, and male researchers still report significantly larger amounts of wage discrimination against women. This extensive research base, containing 104 estimates, suggests that there is less need to correct for selection bias—an indirect sign of lessened discrimination. There is evidence that gender research is changing and improving. Although gender wage discrimination has lessened, the research base still finds a significant gender wage inequality.