Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap

Autor: Philippe Belley, Guy Lacroix, Nathalie Havet
Přispěvatelé: Dao, Taï, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, Kansas State University, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique (GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Economique, Université Laval, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (CIRANO), Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques économiques et l'emploi (CIRPEE), Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Economiques et l'Emploi, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne (GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2012
Předmět:
Yield (finance)
media_common.quotation_subject
gender wage gap
Wage
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J7 - Labor Discrimination/J.J7.J71 - Discrimination
Lohndifferenzierung
Jugendliche
jel:J41
Gender wage gap
experience
gender wage gap
job transitions
tenure
returns to mobility
experience
Gender wage gap
job transitions
tenure
returns to mobility
experience
Economics
ddc:330
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
returns to mobility
National Longitudinal Surveys
Early career
Weibliche Arbeitskräfte
[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Productivity
USA
health care economics and organizations
media_common
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J4 - Particular Labor Markets/J.J4.J41 - Labor Contracts
J71
Berufserfahrung
J16
Berufseinstieg
jel:J71
Erwerbsverlauf
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Male workers
job transitions
jel:J16
tenure
Demographic economics
J41
Wage growth
Statistical discrimination
Schätzung
Zdroj: HAL
Research in Labor Economics (ISSN 0147-9121)
Research in Labor Economics (ISSN 0147-9121), 2015, 42, pp. 231-260
Popis: The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for an employer to assess female workers' productivity and that the noise/signal ratio tapers off more rapidly for male workers. These two assumptions yield numerous theoretical predictions pertaining to gender wage gaps. These predictions are tested using data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. As predicted by our statistical discrimination model, we find that men and women have the same wage at the start of their career, but that female wages grow at a slower rate, creating a gender wage gap. Also consistent with our model, we find that mean wages are higher for workers who keep their job, while wage growth is stronger for workers who change job.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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