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Career Starts and the Male-Female Wage Gap

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Nathalie Havet
Guy Lacroix

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The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for an employer to assess female workers' productivity 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 are tested using French data. It turns out most predictions are supported by the data.

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Paper provided by CIRPEE in its series Cahiers de recherche with number 0330.

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Date of creation: 2003
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Handle: RePEc:lvl:lacicr:0330

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Keywords: Gender wage gap; job transitions; mover-stayer model;

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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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