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

In: Gender in the Labor Market

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  • Philippe Belley
  • Nathalie Havet
  • Guy Lacroix

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This paper investigates the links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure, and wage profiles in the early career of workers. The model assumes that female workers’ productivity is noisier 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, 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 thus generating a gender wage gap.

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  • Philippe Belley & Nathalie Havet & Guy Lacroix, 2015. "Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap☆," Research in Labor Economics, in: Gender in the Labor Market, volume 42, pages 231-260, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-912120150000042007
    DOI: 10.1108/S0147-912120150000042007
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    1. Bargain, Olivier & Doorley, Karina & Van Kerm, Philippe, 2018. "Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland," IZA Discussion Papers 11502, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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    Keywords

    Gender wage gap; job transitions; tenure; returns to mobility; experience; J16; J71; J41;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts

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