Age-productivity patterns in talent occupations for men and women: a decomposition

Barbara Liberda (), Joanna Tyrowicz and Magdalena Smyk

No 2013-27, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: One could expect that in the so-called talent occupations, while access to these professions may differ between men and women, gender wage gap should be actually smaller due to high relevance of human capital quality. Wage regressions typically suggest an inverted U-shaped age-productivity pattern. However, such analyses confuse age, cohort and year effects. Deaton (1997) decomposition allows to disentangle these effects. We apply this method to inquire the age-productivity pattern for the so-called “talent” occupations. Using data from a transition economy (Poland) we find that indeed talent occupations have a steeper age-productivity pattern. However, gender differences are larger for talent occupations than for general occupations.

Keywords: age-productivity pattern; gender wage gap; transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J24 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eff, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-tra
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