Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.

Treballs Finals del Màster d'Economia Laboral / Labour Economics, Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2021-2022. Tutor: Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Yang, Rui
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/189990
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/189990
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Palabra clave:Mercat de treball
Estudis de gènere
Integració escolar
Treballs de fi de màster
Labor market
Gender studies
School integration
Master's theses
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spelling Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.Yang, RuiMercat de treballEstudis de gènereIntegració escolarTreballs de fi de màsterLabor marketGender studiesSchool integrationMaster's thesesTreballs Finals del Màster d'Economia Laboral / Labour Economics, Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2021-2022. Tutor: Jenifer Ruiz-ValenzuelaThis paper uses the 2018–2020 U.S. Census and American Community Survey microdata to examine the extent to which gender differences in graduates' choice of degree fields - STEM or Non-STEM contribute to the gender pay gap in the United States. With the Blinder-Oaxaca wage decomposition method, this paper finds that among the highly-educated labor force in the U.S. for the period 2018-2020, the individual background characteristics (race, region), family characteristics (marital status, number of children), education-related characteristics (degree fields, the highest educational attainment, and school type), and job-related characteristics (hours worked, work experience, job sector, and occupation type) combined can explain 55.96% of the gender pay gap. Among them, whether an individual chooses a college major related to a STEM field (ie. whether or not to obtain a degree in a STEM field) contributes 2.4%-5.2% of the "explanatory part", and can only explain 1.35%-2.91% of the gender pay gap. Finally, the results of this study showed that, although the content of the field of study (STEM/Non-STEM) seems not to explain too much of the current gender wage gap in the U.S. highly-educated workforce, it is hard to deny that educational segregation is still a barrier to gender equality. In addition, this paper also found that the gender pay gap for STEM graduates is 3.77% smaller than the gender pay gap for Non-STEM graduates. What's more, the choice of degree subjects can explain 9.91% of the gender gap for STEM graduate samples.Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer2022info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/189990Màster Oficial - Economia Laboral / Labour Economicsreponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaIngléscc-by-nc-nd (c) Yang, 2022http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1899902026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.
title Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.
spellingShingle Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.
Yang, Rui
Mercat de treball
Estudis de gènere
Integració escolar
Treballs de fi de màster
Labor market
Gender studies
School integration
Master's theses
title_short Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.
title_full Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.
title_fullStr Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.
title_full_unstemmed Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.
title_sort Educational Segregation in STEM/Non-STEM Fields and Wage Gender Gap: Evidence from the U.S.A.
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Yang, Rui
author Yang, Rui
author_facet Yang, Rui
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Mercat de treball
Estudis de gènere
Integració escolar
Treballs de fi de màster
Labor market
Gender studies
School integration
Master's theses
topic Mercat de treball
Estudis de gènere
Integració escolar
Treballs de fi de màster
Labor market
Gender studies
School integration
Master's theses
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