Workplace Skill Investments – An Early Career Glass Ceiling? Job Complexity and Wages Among Young Professionals in Sweden
| Autor: | Katarina Boye, Anne Grönlund |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Glass ceiling
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science Higher education business.industry 05 social sciences Job complexity Human capital 0506 political science Young professional Accounting 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Demographic economics Early career 050207 economics On-the-job training Set (psychology) business Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Work, Employment and Society. 32:368-386 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8722 0950-0170 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0950017017744514 |
| Popis: | Despite higher educational investments, women fall behind men on most indicators of labour market success. This study investigates whether workplace skill investments set men and women off on different tracks in which the human capital acquired through higher education is either devalued or further developed. A survey sample of Swedish men and women who recently graduated from five educational programmes, leading to occupations with different gender composition, is analysed ( N ≈ 2300). Results show that, a few years after graduation, men are more likely than women to acquire complex jobs and that this difference contributes to early career gender gaps in wages and employee bargaining power. The findings do not support the notion that child-related work interruptions provide a main mechanism for sorting women into less complex jobs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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