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Wage Differences By Gender: Evidence From Recently Graduated MBAS
Author(s) -
Graddy Kathryn,
Pistaferri Luigi
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0084
pISSN - 0305-9049
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0084.0620s1837
Subject(s) - homogeneous , wage , demographic economics , degree (music) , population , demography , labour economics , economics , psychology , sociology , mathematics , physics , combinatorics , acoustics
In this paper we use data from the London Business School of measuredifferences in outgoing salaries of male and female graduates with a Master's in Business Administration degree. This is a relatively homogeneous population of individuals with very similar educational backgrounds, limited work histories, and who enter very similar jobs upon completion oftheir degree. Controlling for differences in individual characteristics as reported on application forms, we (r)nd that the starting salaries of women are approximately 8.6 percent less than men in identical occupations.