SEX-DISCRIMINATION AND OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION IN THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR-MARKET

This paper explores the implications of the difference between the Occ upational distribution for males and females in a joint model determin ing earnings and occupation. The male/female wage differential is eval uated for a number of broad occupational classifications. This is foll owed by an evaluation of the role and relative importance of inter-occ upational and intra-occupational effects as contributors to the overal l male/female wage differential. The main conclusion following from th e econometric results is that intra-occupational effects dominate. Thu s, policies which attempt to address the gender wage differential by r e-allocation of labour across occupations are unlikely to solve the pr oblem.