James Ziliak

James Ziliak will work on a project investigating inequality in labor market outcomes of men and women across the life cycle, focusing on the roles of changing employment, hours of work, and the wage levels of workers on inequality. He will use data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 1976-2018 to better understand life cycle gender wage inequality among different birth cohorts across income groups. He will explore three possible mechanisms for patterns of life cycle gender wage gaps among cohorts: gender and education group-specific shocks common to cohorts such as legislative and judicial changes affecting access to employment; changes in life cycle timing of child rearing across cohorts; and the rise of full-time work among women. The project will provide new estimates of earnings inequality across the working life between gender, race, and education.