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Male Wages (male + wage)

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The Covariance Structure of Italian Male Wages

THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 6 2000
Lorenzo Cappellari
Using an unbalanced panel of Italian male wages covering the 1974,88 interval, in this study we estimate the parameters of the wage covariance structure by minimum distance. Estimated variance components models allow for a linear trend in permanent wages, so that wage profile convergence can be assessed by considering the covariance between intercepts and slopes of such individual trends. Evidence of permanent wage convergence is found in the overall wage distribution, but not within white collar workers data; this contrasts with human capital interpretations of wage dynamics and suggests that other factors, such as the egalitarian wage-setting framework fully effective until the mid-1980s, could have played a major role in shaping the wage distribution. [source]

The Determinants of Gender Equity in India: Examining Dyson and Moore's Thesis with New Data

POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Issue 2 2004
Lupin Rahman
In revisiting the influential Dyson and Moore (1983) hypothesis as to why women in South India enjoy relatively more agency than in the North, we conducted an econometric analysis of the determinants of women's mobility and decisionmaking authority. Data for the study come from a household data survey carried out in the Northern state of Uttar Pradesh and in the Southern state of Karnataka in 1995. We find that cross-cousin and uncle-niece marriage is more prevalent in Karnataka as expected. Contrary to Dyson and Moore, however, by 1995 a majority of communities in both North and South practiced village exogamy, and dowries in the two regions were of similar size. Reduced-form, multivariate regressions show that cultural factors affect women's autonomy in ways not earlier predicted. The impact of village exogamy is mixed rather than negative, while that of consanguinity is strongly negative rather than positive as Dyson and Moore surmised. These authors correctly identified the negative effect purdah has on female mobility. Consistent with economic theory, our data show that higher wages for women consistently improve their mobility and authority, while higher male wages decrease them. Improvements in infrastructure,particularly the presence of street lights and schools in the village,are associated with increased women's agency. We conclude, therefore, that economic factors, state action, and restrictions on mobility seem more powerful than kinship structures as explanations of differences in female autonomy between North and South India. [source]

The Evolution of Individual Male Earnings in Great Britain: 1975,95

THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 460 2000
Richard Dickens
I study the dynamic structure of male wages in Great Britain using the New Earnings Survey Panel from 1975,95. Computing auto-covariances of individual wages by cohort I find evidence of a permanent component of earnings that increases over the life cycle and a highly persistent, serially correlated transitory component. In addition, the estimated variances of both these components have risen over this period, each explaining about half the rise in inequality. Using individual's occupation at age 22, I split the sample into four skill groups. I find some differences across these groups, with the rise in the permanent variance most important for the manual groups. [source]