| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14681 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14681 |
| Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors | |
| Marianne Bertrand; Claudia Goldin; Lawrence F. Katz | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-01-29 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical (labor) incomes at the outset of their careers, their earnings soon diverge, with the male annual earnings advantage reaching almost 60 log points at ten to 16 years after MBA completion. We identify three proximate reasons for the large and rising gender gap in earnings: differences in training prior to MBA graduation; differences in career interruptions; and differences in weekly hours. These three determinants can explain the bulk of gender differences in earnings across the years following MBA completion. The presence of children is the main contributor to the lesser job experience, greater career discontinuity and shorter work hours for female MBAs. Some MBA mothers, especially those with well-off spouses, slow down in the labor market within a few years following their first birth. Disparities in the productive characteristics of male and female MBAs are small, but the pecuniary penalties from shorter hours and any job discontinuity are enormous for MBAs. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Market Structures |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14681 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572357 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marianne Bertrand,Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz. Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors. 2009. |
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| w14681.pdf（265KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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