This article examines the relationship between the changing occupational careers of female wage earners and gender wage inequality. Using Current Population Survey-Merged Outgoing Rotation Group data, it assesses the effect on the gender wage gap of changes in the composition and price both of care-providing occupations that are culturally associated with female labor and of managerial and professional occupations that are not part of the care economy, over the period 1979 to 2015. It finds that the rapid entry of female workers into high-wage managerial occupations, and their exit from low-wage private household work, contributed to gender wage convergence. However, the wage-equalizing effects of occupational shifts and related behavioral changes diminish over time, and wage convergence ceases after 2007. It also finds that female workers continue to be disadvantaged by wage dispersion and that most of the remaining gender wage gap arises within occupations. The concluding sections discuss the findings and their implications for closing the wage gap.

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职业变化和性别工资不平等

本文考察了女性工薪阶层职业生涯变化与性别工资不平等之间的关系。使用当前人口调查合并的离职轮换组数据，它评估了在文化上与女性劳动力相关的护理职业以及不属于女性劳动力的管理和专业职业的构成和价格变化对性别工资差距的影响。 1979 年至 2015 年期间护理经济的变化。研究发现，女工迅速进入高薪管理职业，退出低薪私人家务工作，促进了性别工资趋同。然而，职业转变和相关行为变化的工资均等效应会随着时间的推移而减弱，工资趋同在 2007 年之后停止。它还发现，女性工人继续因工资分散而处于不利地位，而且大部分剩余的性别工资差距出现在职业中。结论部分讨论了调查结果及其对缩小工资差距的影响。