The gender gap in early-career wage growth

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Manning, Alan; Swaffield, Joanna
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of York - UK
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02158.x
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 983-1024
• 关键词: job mobility; earnings; women; men; pay; unemployment; promotion; layoffs; search

摘要

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.