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IZA
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
by
Solomon Polachek
(April 2004)
published in: F. Blau, M. Brinton, and D. Grusky, (eds.) The Declining Significance of Gender?, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006
Abstract:
This paper explores secular changes in women’s pay relative to men’s pay. It shows how the
human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work
expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose
almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of
about 1940-1980), and why this relative wage growth tapered off since 1993. In addition to
the US, the paper presents evidence from nine other countries using data gleaned from the
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS).
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 1102 
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