Disciplinary Differences in Faculty Salaries: Does Gender Bias Play a Role?.

Bellas, Marcia L.

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ERIC Number: EJ546175

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Disciplinary Differences in Faculty Salaries: Does Gender Bias Play a Role?

Bellas, Marcia L.

Journal of Higher Education, v68 n3 p299-321 May-Jun 1997

Examined the extent to which labor-market conditions and the sex-composition of academic disciplines influenced average disciplinary salaries, based on the average, full-time 1988-89 salaries of new assistant professors for 16 academic disciplines. Findings from both cross-sectional and dynamic models indicated that both labor-market conditions and sex composition influenced average salaries across disciplines. (MDM)

Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Labor Market, Salary Wage Differentials, Sex Differences, Teacher Salaries

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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