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The Gender Gap in Early Career Wage Growth: The Role of Children, Job Mobility, and Occupational Mobility
Author(s) -
Reshid Abdulaziz Abrar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12148
Subject(s) - wage growth , occupational mobility , wage , labour economics , economics , demographic economics , hourly wage , social mobility , psychology , political science , law
During the first 10 years in the Swedish labor market, male university graduates experience a faster wage growth than females. We investigate the role job and upward occupational mobility have for the creation of gender difference in early career wage growth; and the role of motherhood as an underlying mechanism. We find that although men and women change jobs and occupations at the same rate, women receive a significantly lower wage returns to mobility than men. We find evidence that women's lower return to occupational mobility is largely explained by motherhood, while the evidence for job mobility is rather weak.