Table 3

Gender wage gap varying controls for experience

Dependent variable: hourly wages in main DHB job (ln)
	Trained in NZ since 1994
	1	2	3	4
Female	−0.074‡	−0.065†	−0.058†	−0.047†
Female	(0.026)	(0.025)	(0.025)	(0.023)
Hours worked in main DHB job (omitted 41–50 hours)
30 or fewer	0.376‡	0.337‡	0.345‡	0.323‡
30 or fewer	(0.086)	(0.092)	(0.091)	(0.084)
31–40	0.158‡	0.137‡	0.135‡	0.140‡
31–40	(0.044)	(0.040)	(0.039)	(0.039)
51–60	−0.205‡	−0.167‡	−0.166‡	−0.160‡
51–60	(0.025)	(0.023)	(0.023)	(0.023)
Over 60	−0.324‡	−0.271‡	−0.270‡	−0.267‡
Over 60	(0.027)	(0.025)	(0.025)	(0.025)
Highest qualification (omitted bachelor’s degree/level 7)
Honours and master’s	0.016	0.011	0.013	0.005
Honours and master’s	(0.025)	(0.024)	(0.024)	(0.025)
Doctorate	0.141‡	0.077*	0.066	0.076*
Doctorate	(0.046)	(0.044)	(0.044)	(0.044)
Age spline	Yes	No	No	No
Years since qual spline	No	Yes	No	No
Years since qual with child adjustment spline	No	No	Yes	Yes
Hours worked in other jobs controls	No	No	No	Yes
Specialty fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R²	0.623	0.656	0.660	0.670
Observations	759	759	759	759

Each column presents results from an OLS regression with dependent variable log hourly wage in main DHB job. The sample is specialists who gained their medical degree in New Zealand (NZ) in 1994 or more recently. All observation counts have been randomly rounded to base 3. Robust SEs are in parentheses.
*P<0.10.
†P<0.05.
‡P<0.01.
DHB, district health board.