The Influence of Education Level, Gender, Race, Marital Status, Age, and Occupation on the Wage of the General Population

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10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.155How to use a DOI?

Keywords

wage; labor economics; wage equality; education; industry

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how education level, gender, race, marital status, age, and occupation influence the wage of the general population. Using the Family files of 2019 data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this paper identifies the importance of maintaining equality in the labor market. After analyzing the data, this paper finds that years of education tend to have a more significant impact on people’s income for people with more years of education and a higher degree of education. In addition, the discrimination of race and gender still exists in the labor market, and these discriminations deepened the wage inequality in our society today. Also, marriage impacts females’ and males’ income differently, and females’ income is hurt more than males’ income when getting married.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ronghai Xie
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/29
TI  - The Influence of Education Level, Gender, Race, Marital Status, Age, and Occupation on the Wage of the General Population
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 926
EP  - 932
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.155
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.155
ID  - Xie2022
ER  -