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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career : Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap
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Résumé |
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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.
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Auteur(s)
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Philippe Belley
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, Nathalie Havet
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, Guy Lacroix
3, 4, 5
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Department of Economics, Kansas State University
( 203785 )
- Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506
- États-Unis
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Kansas State University ( 365659 )
2
GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne -
Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne
( 102550 )
- 93, chemin des Mouilles 69130 Écully
6, rue Basse des Rives 42023 Saint-Étienne cedex 02
- France
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École normale supérieure de Lyon ( 6818 )
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Université Lumière - Lyon 2 ( 33804 )
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Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ( 194495 )
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Université de Lyon ( 301088 )
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Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne ( 300284 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR5824 ( 441569 )
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Département d'Economique, Université Laval
( 44795 )
- Université Laval, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4
- Canada
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Université Laval [Québec] ( 93488 )
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CIRANO -
Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations
( 37218 )
- 2020, rue University, 25e étage Montréal, Québec, H3A 2A5
- Canada
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Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal ( 360045 )
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CIRPEE -
Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques économiques et l'emploi
( 129434 )
- 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec) CANADA H3T 2A7
- Canada
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Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Economiques et l'Emploi ( 311892 )
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Audience |
Non spécifiée
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Domaine(s) |
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
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Référence interne |
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Working paper GATE 2012-29
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Mots-clés (JEL) |
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J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
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J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J7 - Labor Discrimination/J.J7.J71 - Discrimination
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J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J4 - Particular Labor Markets/J.J4.J41 - Labor Contracts
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Mots-clés |
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Gender wage gap, job transitions, tenure, returns to mobility, experience
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