Abstract
This paper aims to examine the interindustry wage differentials for male and female workers over time, and apply the recently developed approach of interindustry gender wage gap measures to calculate the estimated gender wage gap by industry and the corresponding standard errors based on the 1978-2003 Manpower Utilization Survey data. Our estimation results indicate that either the construction or the mining industry takes the position of the highest wage differential for both male and female workers. A female worker in the highest wage differential industry earned 15% to 36% higher wages than the average female worker among all industries and a male worker in the highest wage differential industry earned 10% to 29% higher wages than the average male worker among all industries. As to the findings of interindustry gender wage gaps, it is found that the interindustry wage differential for women in the finance, insurance & real estate industry is 11-15% below that for men and in the agriculture, forestry & fisheries industry, women have a wage differential 28-36% below that for men for the year of 2003. In addition, female workers in either the mining industry or the agriculture, forestry & fisheries industry face the largest gender wage gap compared to those in other industries for most years during our sample period.