abstract: 'This paper examines how much the observed convergence in the gender wage

  gap in Japan from 1992 to 2002 is affected by changes in female labor

  participation behavior. The existing literature focuses on full-time

  workers, but the replacement of low-paid regular full-time workers by

  non-regular workers and the introduction of the Equal Employment

  Opportunity Law may have changed the selection of females in full-time

  work force. I consider a three choice framework for a woman based on the

  Roy model: a woman chooses either no work, non-regular work, or regular

  work. This framework shows that large (potential) wage inequality within

  a gender can draw high-earning people into the workforce and push

  low-earning people out. I apply Lee''s (1983) method to the micro data

  from the Employment Social Surveys 1992 and 2002. The results show that

  female selection in regular workers became stricter in 2002 and women

  with low-earning ability tended to be pushed out from regular work

  force. The wage structure for female regular workers has become more

  ability based. This change in the female selection explains 63.27\% of

  the observed convergence in the mean log wage gap between female regular

  workers and male workers. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Onozuka, Y (Corresponding Author), Univ Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond
  St, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada.

  Onozuka, Yuki, Hitotsubashi Univ, 2-1 Naka, Tokyo 1868601, Japan.

  Onozuka, Yuki, Univ Western Ontario Econ, 1151 Richmond St, London, ON N6A 3K7,
  Canada.'
author: Onozuka, Yuki
author-email: yonozuka@uwo.ca
author_list:
- family: Onozuka
  given: Yuki
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jjie.2016.01.002
eissn: 1095-8681
files: []
issn: 0889-1583
journal: JOURNAL OF THE JAPANESE AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIES
keywords: 'Gender wage gap; Selection; Japan; Regular workers; Non-regular workers;

  Equal Employment Opportunity Law'
keywords-plus: EMPLOYMENT; PAY
language: English
month: MAR
number-of-cited-references: '24'
pages: 53-72
papis_id: 2ef2b292c503e1ddbc557812f4c34cf2
ref: Onozuka2016genderwage
times-cited: '4'
title: The gender wage gap and sample selection in Japan
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000373093300004
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '37'
volume: '39'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; International Relations
year: '2016'