High School Experiences, the Gender Wage Gap, and the Selection of Occupation

Douglas Webber and Michael Strain

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Abstract: This paper finds that high-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender wage gap and selection into management occupations. The results imply that high-school leadership could build non-cognitive, productive skills that are rewarded years later in the labor market and that explain a portion of the systematic difference in pay between men and women. Alternatively, high-school leadership could be a proxy variable for personality characteristics that differ between men and women and that drive higher pay and becoming a manager. Because high school leadership experiences are exogenous to direct labor market experiences, the results leave less room for direct labor market discrimination as a driver of the gender wage gap and occupation selection.

Keywords: gender wage gap; non-cognitive skills; occupational choice; women; men; gender discrimination; remuneration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08
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