The effects of differences in year-round, full-time labor market experience on gender wage levels in the United States

Paul Gabriel

International Review of Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 19, issue 3, 369-377

Abstract: This paper utilizes longitudinal information on annual hours worked to construct a more robust measure of labor market experience for young workers in the USA. This enhanced experience measure is then used to assess recent gender wage differentials. Our experience measure yields a dramatic improvement in the ability of standard earnings regressions to explain the variation in wages across individuals, especially for young women. In addition, our results indicate that approximately one-fourth of the gender difference in average wages is attributable to the higher work experience levels of men.

Keywords: Wages; gender; discrimination; JEL Classification: J1; J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1080/02692170500119813

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