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Selection into Occupations and the Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Sons☆

In: Gender in the Labor Market

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  • Julia M. Schwenkenberg

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This paper documents how gender differences in occupational status (defined by earnings, education, and returns to skills) have evolved over time and across generations. The paper finds a persistent gender earnings gap, a reversal of the education gap, and a convergence in starting salaries and returns to experience. Divergent occupational choices might explain part of the persistent gender gaps and women’s failure to reach parity with men in the earnings distribution. Women choose more flexible jobs than men. But whereas men dominate women in high-powered occupations, they are also more likely to be in low-skilled low-pay occupations. Differential effects of children and time spent keeping house explain most of the gender gap in high-powered occupations but cannot explain fully why women choose more flexible occupations.

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  • Julia M. Schwenkenberg, 2015. "Selection into Occupations and the Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Sons☆," Research in Labor Economics, in: Gender in the Labor Market, volume 42, pages 261-306, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-912120150000042008
    DOI: 10.1108/S0147-912120150000042008
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    Keywords

    Gender gaps; intergenerational mobility; occupational choice; J16; J24; J62;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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