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Wage Growth across Fields of Study among Young College Graduates: Is There a Gender Gap?

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  • Rocío Sánchez-Mangas
  • Virginia Sánchez-Marcos

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We use the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society data set to learn about gender gaps during the early career of college graduates in Europe. We document substantial heterogeneity across fields of education in the gender wage gap at the entrance to the labour market. We find that the gap evolves against women over the five years after graduation in Social Science and in Economics, Business, and Law. Finally, we estimate a significant female wage growth penalty after we control for observable characteristics only within the Economics, Business, and Law category. Within this field, we estimate a female annual wage growth penalty of 1.1 percentage points among individuals who remained childless and 2.5 percentage points among individuals who became parents. A small fraction of the wage growth gap disappears after we control for variables capturing individual differences in job mobility or in labour market attachment during the early career. (JEL codes: J16, J24, J31)

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  • Rocío Sánchez-Mangas & Virginia Sánchez-Marcos, 2021. "Wage Growth across Fields of Study among Young College Graduates: Is There a Gender Gap?," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 67(3), pages 251-274.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cesifo:v:67:y:2021:i:3:p:251-274.
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    Cited by:

    1. Zając, Tomasz & Magda, Iga & Bożykowski, M. & Chłoń-Domińczak, Agnieszka & Jasiński, M., 2023. "Gender Pay Gaps across STEM Fields of Study," IZA Discussion Papers 16613, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Bazen, Stephen & Charni, Kadija, 2023. "Gender Differences in the Early Career Earnings of Economics Graduates," IZA Discussion Papers 15954, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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    Keywords

    gender wage growth gap; college field of education; human capital; early career;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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