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Gender-Based Wage Differentials in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Manufacturing, 1900–1950

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Peter Philips
Peter Philips
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112.
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Abstract

This multiple regression study of women's and men's wages in New Jersey and Pennsylvania manufacturing finds that the average pay gap has changed in favor of women from 1900–1950 in several industries and in the aggregate. Technological homogenization of jobs is suggested as a possible explanation of gender-based wage convergence. An overall framework of forces and relations of production is outlined, and future work on this newly introduced body of data is suggested.

Type
Papers Presented at the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 181 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1982

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References

1 Fuchs, Victor, “Differences in Hourly Earnings Between Men and Women,” Monthly Labor Review (05 1971), 9–15.Google Scholar

2 Trieman, Donald J. and Hartmann, Heidi I., eds., Women, Work and Wages, National Research Council, National Academy Press (Washington, D.C., 1981), p. 15.Google Scholar

3 These data were collected from the stated years of the Annual Report of the secretary of Internal Affairs of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics, Pennsylvania, and the Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industry, New Jersey.Google Scholar

4 For sources and data see, Philips, Peter, Towards A Historical Theory of Wage Structures, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis (Standford University, 1980).Google Scholar