How Much of the Gender Gap Is Coming From Men and Women Doing Different Jobs?

Men and women do different jobs. How important is that for explaining the observed differences we see of wages for women men? So the first thing is that this measure of occupational segregation has declined quite a bit over time. The second thing that the differences in earnings within occupations are very important. In fact, they are more important than the differences that occur because individuals are in different occupations. Take lawyers for example. Some lawyers are working in big law firms, they have big ticket clients. And some lawyer s are working in small law firms, and they make very different incomes. Whereas for, let's say, teachers, there's more uniformity. A few had to take the full gap.