This result is consistent with previous findings suggesting that for natives the payoff to education, both in terms of access to high paying occupations and earnings progression within each occupation, increases along the deciles of the earnings distribution.
As part of this process, matters of consumption and lifestyle choice – be they about coffee, craft beer or gourmet burgers – are frequently made to carry greater weight than occupation or earnings as a measure of what used to be called class.
The change of code definition from '106' to '311' was based on keeping the number in that occupation, and earnings, consistent.
Earnings is defined as the sum of all income from labor, either direct payments, payments in kind from primary or secondary occupations or earnings from self-employment in agriculture or the informal sector.
Women working in the installation, maintenance, and repair occupations had earnings on par with their male peers.
Roy's insight introduces economic decision-making into the determination of occupations and earnings and fundamentally modifies the procedures that should be applied to the analysis of earnings data (see French and Taber (2011) for an up-to-date survey).
In fact, the last time the overall wage gap was so large was 1981, when women across all occupations earned just 64.4percentt of men's earnings.
Women working full-time in sales occupations earned only 64percentt of their male counterparts' earnings in 2010 -- the highest of any occupation.
Of those 10 jobs, 8 occupations pay above the weekly median earnings for women and 6 pay above the weekly median earnings for men.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracked 535 full-time, "detailed" occupations in 2014 and, in the 125 occupations with comparable earnings data, men earned more than women in all but one profession: stock clerks and order fillers.
