Thesis
The Gender Wage Gap in the Restaurant Industry
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
12/2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000007221
Abstract
This study investigates trends and determinants in the restaurant industry gender wage gap. Restaurant workers are among the lowest paid in the U.S., and women make some of the lowest wages overall. Among all workers, the gender wage gap has been declining since the 1950s, though more slowly since the 1990s. Determinants of the gender wage gap in the restaurant industry have been seldom analyzed. Using data from the Current Population Survey and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method, results found that the explained portion of the wage gap decreased from 1992 to 2018, suggesting that discrimination and other characteristics not considered in the decomposition model increased from 1992 to 2018. The most surprising finding from the decomposition was the relative importance of the rural-urban divide in explaining the wage gap for both 1992 and 2018.
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- Title
- The Gender Wage Gap in the Restaurant Industry
- Creators
- Whitney Shervey
- Contributors
- Mariana Amorim (Chair)Julie Kmec (Committee Member)Erik Johnson (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Sociology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 56
- Identifiers
- 99901195439701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis