The gender gap in early-career wage growth
The gender gap in early-career wage growth
In the UK the gender pay gap on entry to the labour market is approximately zero but ten years after labour market entry, there is a gender wage gap of almost 25 log points. This article explores the reason for this gender gap in early-career wage growth, considering three main hypotheses - human capital, job-shopping and 'psychological' theories. Human capital factors can explain about 11 log points, job-shopping about 1.5 log points and the psychological theories up to 4.5 log points depending on the specification. But a substantial unexplained gap remains: women who have continuous full-time employment, have had no children and express no desire to have them earn about 8 log points less than equivalent men after 10 years in the labour market.
JOB MOBILITY, LABOR-MARKET, LIFE-CYCLE, EARNINGS, WOMEN, MEN, PAY, DIFFERENTIALS, UNEMPLOYMENT, DISPLACEMENT
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Manning, Alan
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Swaffield, Joanna
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1 July 2008
Manning, Alan
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Swaffield, Joanna
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Abstract
In the UK the gender pay gap on entry to the labour market is approximately zero but ten years after labour market entry, there is a gender wage gap of almost 25 log points. This article explores the reason for this gender gap in early-career wage growth, considering three main hypotheses - human capital, job-shopping and 'psychological' theories. Human capital factors can explain about 11 log points, job-shopping about 1.5 log points and the psychological theories up to 4.5 log points depending on the specification. But a substantial unexplained gap remains: women who have continuous full-time employment, have had no children and express no desire to have them earn about 8 log points less than equivalent men after 10 years in the labour market.
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Published date: 1 July 2008
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JOB MOBILITY, LABOR-MARKET, LIFE-CYCLE, EARNINGS, WOMEN, MEN, PAY, DIFFERENTIALS, UNEMPLOYMENT, DISPLACEMENT
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/453686
ISSN: 0013-0133
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