Differences in wage rates for males and females in the health sector: a consideration of unpaid overtime to decompose the gender wage gap

Vecchio, Nerina; Scuffham, Paul A; Hilton, Michael F; Whiteford, Harvey A

doi:10.1186/1478-4491-11-9

Human Resources for Health

Table 3 Regression model

From: Differences in wage rates for males and females in the health sector: a consideration of unpaid overtime to decompose the gender wage gap

	Manager (n= 1,128)			Professional/technical (n= 6,151)			Trade/labour (n= 463)			Clerical/service (n= 2,324)
	B	95% CI		B	95% CI		B	95% CI		B	95% CI
(Constant)	3.144***	3.044	3.243	3.046***	3.015	3.078	2.570***	2.345	2.795	2.897***	2.820	2.971
Married: Sepdivwid^a	−0.038	−0.090	0.014	−0.031*	−0.056	−0.007	−0.017	−0.096	0.062	0.010	−0.021	0.041
NvrMar^a	0.045	−0.014	0.105	−0.025*	−0.047	−0.003	−0.015	−0.091	0.061	0.047*	0.011	0.083
Education: yr 11/lower^b	−0.389***	−0.455	−0.322	−0.334***	−0.370	−0.298	−0.153*	−0.299	−0.006	−0.190***	−0.239	-0.142
Yr 12^b	−0.216***	−0.296	−0.135	−0.176***	−0.215	−0.136	−0.103	−0.262	0.057	−0.107***	−0.158	-0.057
Tery ed^b	−0.199***	−0.250	−0.149	−0.167***	−0.190	−0.143	−0.107	−0.257	0.042	−0.104***	−0.150	-0.058
Post grad^b	0.078**	0.032	0.125	0.106***	0.087	0.125	−0.183	−0.503	0.137	0.031	−0.065	0.126
Number of children	0.083***	0.068	0.098	0.065***	0.057	0.073	0.106***	0.065	0.147	0.066***	0.0568	0.077
Govt: local^c	0.169***	0.118	0.220	0.078***	0.051	0.104	0.079**	0.024	0.134	0.164***	0.135	0.194
Private^c	−0.134*	−0.238	−0.030	−0.036	−0.080	0.008	0.143	−0.146	0.433	0.023	−0.039	0.084
Number supervised	0.001*	0.000	0.002	0.002***	0.002	0.003	−0.002	−0.005	0.001	0.002**	0.001	0.003
PE	0.007	−0.002	0.015	0.003*	0.000	0.006	0.007	−0.006	0.020	−0.001	−0.006	0.005
PE ²	−0.000	−0.000	0.000	−0.000	−0.000	0.000	−0.000	−0.000	0.000	−0.000	−0.000	0.000
Unpaid overtime	0.006***	0.004	0.008	0.007***	0.007	0.008	0.008***	0.006	0.011	0.008***	0.006	0.010
Gender	0.147***	0.109	0.184	0.177***	0.160	0.195	0.170***	0.091	0.250	0.089***	0.062	0.116
Adj R ²	0.407			0.302			0.228			0.235
Gender ^d	0.149***	0.111	0.188	0.190***	0.172	0.207	0.179***	0.095	0.262	0.094***	0.067 0.122
Adj R ²	0.390			0.276			0.156			0.206

Impact of unpaid overtime on income, stratified by occupation. Dependent variable is log of hourly wage. CI, confidence interval; PE, experience proxy. ^aReferent is married. ^bReferent is degree graduate. ^cReferent is state. ^dModel without unpaid overtime variable. ***P ≤0.01, **P ≤0.05, *P ≤0.10.
Source: Work Outcomes Research Cost-benefit Survey 2005/06.

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