TY  - SER
AU  - Humphries, John Eric
AU  -  Joensen, Juanna Schrøter
AU  -  Veramendi, Gregory F.
TI  - The Gender Wage Gap: Skills, Sorting, and Returns
SN  - 2574-0768
PB  - AEA Papers and Proceedings
KW  -  Labor Productivity, Wage Level and Structure
KW  -  Non-labor Discrimination, Human Capital
KW  -  Occupational Choice
KW  -  Research Institutions, Returns to Education, Economics of Gender
KW  -  Skills
KW  - Higher Education
N2  - There is a large gender wage gap among college graduates. This gender gap could be partially driven by differences in college major and prior skills. We use Swedish register data to study how much of the gender gap can be explained by differences in majors, skills, and skill prices. College majors explain 60 percent of the gender wage gap, but large gaps remain within majors. We find that within-major wage gaps are driven by neither differences in multidimensional skills nor returns to these skills. In fact, women are positively selected in terms of college preparation and skills in almost every major
UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20241026
ER  -