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Gender, Motivation, Experience and Wages

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Joanna Swaffield
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Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, 1991-97 this paper investigates the structure of the female wage equation and the gender wage differential. The discriminatory portion of the gender wage differential is overstated by over 40% when inadequate measures of female labour market experience are included in the wage equation. The degree of labour market motivation, aspirations and constraints are found to have a significant impact on the female wage. Moreover, the impact of time out of the labour market varies across gender, activity undertaken while out, labour market motivation and the degree of male occupational domination.

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Keywords: Experience; motivation; unobserved heterogeneity; gender wage differentiation;

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  1. Alan Manning & Joanna Swaffield, 2005. "The Gender Gap in Early Career Wage Growth," CEP Discussion Papers dp0700, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. [Downloadable!]
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  2. David Campbell, 2002. "Interrupted Work Careers and the Starting Salaries of Female Workers in Britain," Studies in Economics 0204, Department of Economics, University of Kent. [Downloadable!]
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