Strategies for Opes's pricing dicisions

A cross-section study of 116 sectors of U.K. manufacturing shows that the proportion of females employed in each industry can be explained by variables which stand for the type of work performed in that industry. Females tend to be more represented them men in sectors where work is less heavy and dangerous, but also less qualified, and where the number of part-time jobs prevail. Earnings differentials between non-competing groups (women and men, manual and non-manual workers) are shown to be remarkably similar in the entire manufacturing sector. The level of wages in each industry appears to explain a large part of the variation of salaries.