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Work and Occupations, Vol. 31, No. 3, 323-344 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0730888404266384

Gender Inequality Across Local Wage Hierarchies

Matt L. Huffman

University of California, Irvine

Is gender inequality more severe in higher paying jobs, where there is more at stake? Using a unique definition of jobs—local occupation-industry cells—and multilevel models, I offer the first investigation of how gender wage inequality varies as a function of a job’s ranking in its specific local labor-market context. The results suggest that net of various individual- and job-level controls, (a) female-dominated jobs pay less than comparable male-dominated jobs, (b) the penalty associated with female-dominated jobs is steeper for women, and (c) wage inequality increases as one ascends the wage hierarchy of local labor markets. However, there is no evidence that the tendency for female-dominated jobs to pay less than comparable male-dominated jobs is stronger in high-ranking jobs. Taken together, the results are consistent with the exclusion of women from high-ranking jobs as well as gender segregation within local occupation-industry cells.

Key Words: gender inequality • local labor markets


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