The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career

John Addison, Orgul Ozturk and Si Wang
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Si Wang: Department of Economics, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

No 2014-07, GEMF Working Papers from GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Abstract: Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), this paper considers the role of gender in promotion and subsequent earnings development and how this evolves over a career. In its use of three career stages, the study builds on earlier work using the NLSY79 that considers gender differences in the early career years alone. The raw data suggest reasonably favorable promotion outcomes for females over a career. But the advantages seem to be confined to less-educated females. And while there are strong returns to education for males through enhanced promotion probability and attendant wage growth in later career this is not the case for females. Although this latter finding is not inconsistent with fertility choices on the part of educated females, choice is seemingly only part of the explanation.

Keywords: promotion; earnings; early/mid/peak career; gender; public sector; private sector. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J51 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2014-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ltv
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Published in Journal of Human Capital 8(3): 280-317, 2014.

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