| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 經濟學系 === 85 === The objective of this study is not to expand the theoretic model
or estimation techniques. Rather, it uses data from a lesser
studied nation -- Taiwan, and calculate a much more accurate
market experience measure for married females. What we try to
answer is whether the overestimation (in our sample, by 65.6
months, or 29.3%) of market experience of married females, via
using the traditional "potential" experience, biases the measure
of gender (wage) discrimination. And if so, by how much. The
empirical evidence shows that by using the re-calculated "real"
experience (EXR) over the "potential" experience (EXP), the
coefficient estimates do change, but neither the magnitude nor
the resulting effect on gender "wage discrimination" is
substantial. If this finding proves to be robust, our practice
of using potential experience may be less damaging than we
thought.
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