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Monopsony, Mobility, and Sex Differences in Pay: Missouri School Teachers

  • Michael R. Ransom
  • Val E. Lambson
American Economic Review
vol. 101, no. 3, May 2011
(pp. 454-59)
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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.101.3.454

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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