Manning, Alan and Swaffield, Joanna (2008) The gender gap in early-career wage growth. Economic Journal, 118 (530). pp. 983-1024. ISSN 0013-0133
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 The Authors |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: | J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc. |
| Sets: | Departments > Economics Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2012 16:11 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/41955/ |
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