Why do women's wages increase so slowly throughout their career? A dynamic model of statistical discrimination

Nathalie Havet () and Catherine Sofer ()

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and women during their working careers. We provide a dynamic model of statistical discrimination, which integrates specific human capital decisions: on-the-job training investment and wages are endogenously determined. We reveal a small wage differential at the beginning of women's career, but women's wages increase more slowly; this is partly due to a lower level of human capital investment by women and partly because firms smooth training costs between different periods.

Keywords: dynamic; model; of; statistical; discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-05
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Published in LABOUR, 2008, 22 (2), pp.291-314. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00409.x⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00409.x

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