Changes in the Gender Wage Gap and the Returns to Firm Specific Human Capital

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Changes in the Gender Wage Gap and the Returns to Firm Specific Human Capital

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Walsh, F.
Strobl, E.

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If females have a higher probability of separating from job ex ante than males, then efficient cost sharing of the on-the-job trainig inplies females will have steeper tenure profiles. Becker and Lindsay (1994) argue that this is true empirically. Updating the analysis we find that the probability of women leaving jobs has fallen and tenure slopes and starting pay of males and females with given characteristics in long-term jobs converged significantly.

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Paper provided by College Dublin, Department of Political Economy- in its series Papers with number 99/7.

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Date of creation: 1999
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- Frank Walsh & Eric Strobl, 1999. "Changes in the Gender Wage Gap and The Returns to Firm Specific Human Capital," Working Papers 199907, School Of Economics, University College Dublin. [Downloadable!]

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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Blau, Francine D & Kahn, Lawrence M, 1997. "Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in 1980s," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 15(1), pages 1-42, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Hersch, Joni & Reagan, Patricia B, 1997. "Worker Effort Decisions and Efficient Gender-Specific Wage-Tenure Profiles," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 35(1), pages 193-207, January.
Becker, Elizabeth & Lindsay, Cotton M, 1994. "Sex Differences in Tenure Profiles: Effects of Shared Firm-Specific Investment," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 12(1), pages 98-118, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Coleman, James S, 1998. "Do Women Earn Higher Returns to Tenure Than Men? Evidence from the New Earnings Survey," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 65-68, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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