1. An Examination of Labor Market Gender Discrimination Dr. David Schaffer & Nathan Schaffer University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

2. Claudia Goldin A GRAND GENDER CONVERGENCE: ITS LAST CHAPTER “ A flexible schedule often comes at a high price...” Claudia Goldin

3. Age-Earnings Profile

4. Shrinking Wage Gap

5. Occupational Information Network

6. RELEVANT O*NET Categories ABILITIESABILITIES INTERESTSINTERESTS KNOWLEDGEKNOWLEDGE SKILLSSKILLS WORK CONTEXTWORK CONTEXT WORK ACTIVITIESWORK ACTIVITIES WORK VALUESWORK VALUES

7. RELEVANT CHARACTERISTICS 1.Time Pressure 2.Contact With Others 3.Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships 4.Structured Versus Unstructured Work 5.Freedom to Make Decisions

8. ReSEARCH PURPOSE Run all O*Net Database Characteristics with wage dataRun all O*Net Database Characteristics with wage data Test the Validity of Claudia Goldin’s findings that the remaining wage gap is due to women’s desire for greater flexibilityTest the Validity of Claudia Goldin’s findings that the remaining wage gap is due to women’s desire for greater flexibility

9. O*NET DATA FILES 1100+ Occupations1100+ Occupations 500+ Characteristics500+ Characteristics Data Source Updates: Incumbent, Occupational Experts, AnalystsData Source Updates: Incumbent, Occupational Experts, Analysts

10. Data Conversion Locate crosswalks between O*Net Occupation Titles and CPS Occupation Titles Original Files to Excel Files CPS 2010 to CPS 2003 Excel files to STATA Files

11. REMAINING WORK Run Regressions between O*Net Characteristics and CPS Wage DataRun Regressions between O*Net Characteristics and CPS Wage Data Compare our findings to those of Claudia GoldinCompare our findings to those of Claudia Goldin