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Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity
Author(s) -
JOHNSTON DAVID W.,
LEE WANGSHENG
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2011.00667.x
Subject(s) - climb , climbing , position (finance) , labour economics , demographic economics , panel study of income dynamics , wage , economics , empirical evidence , geography , philosophy , archaeology , finance , epistemology , aerospace engineering , engineering
An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to “climb the job ladder.” However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. Focusing on a subsample of younger, university‐educated workers from an Australian longitudinal survey, we find strong evidence that the dynamics of promotions and employer changes worsen women’s labor market position.