American Economic Review
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Monopsony, Mobility, and Sex Differences in Pay: Missouri School Teachers
American Economic Review
vol. 101,
no. 3, May 2011
(pp. 454–59)
Abstract
We examine the sex differences in the pay of school teachers in Missouri. In Missouri school districts, pay is determined by a salary schedule that maps teaching experience and education level of an individual to a salary level. In spite of this apparently mechanical rule for determining pay, female teachers earn less than male teachers, after controlling for experience and education. We explore how such a difference could arise from differential job mobility and find some evidence to support this idea. However, within district differences in pay are a more important source of differences in pay between men and women.Citation
Ransom, Michael R., and Val E. Lambson. 2011. "Monopsony, Mobility, and Sex Differences in Pay: Missouri School Teachers." American Economic Review, 101 (3): 454–59. DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.3.454Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
- I21 Analysis of Education
- J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J45 Public Sector Labor Markets