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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Frank Walsh (University College Dublin)
Eric Strobl (University College Dublin)

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If employers believe females are more likely to separate from a job than males, efficient cost sharing of on-the-job-training implies that females will have higher returns to tenure. Becker and Lindsay (1994) argue that this is true empirically. (1994). Updating the analysis we find that that there is no longer a difference in the probability of leaving jobs or in returns to tenure by gender. Differences in contracts to finance on the job training can no longer explain any of the “discrimination” component in the gender wage gap.

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Paper provided by School Of Economics, University College Dublin in its series Working Papers with number 199907.

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Date of creation: 08 Jun 1999
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- Walsh, F. & Strobl, E., 1999. "Changes in the Gender Wage Gap and the Returns to Firm Specific Human Capital," Papers 99/7, College Dublin, Department of Political Economy-.

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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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)
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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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