Race, Sex, and Federal Pay 1940: The Impact of Education, Age, Occupation, and Marital Status

• In Event: Human Resource Management

Brief Overview

Using Census data for all 230,000 federal public administrators in 1940, we examine the impact of education, age, hours worked, occupation, and marital status on the surprisingly small gender pay disparities.

Authors

• Gregory B. Lewis, Georgia State University

• Tingzhong Huang, Georgia State University