Talent, Career Choice and Competition: The Gender Wage Gap at the Top

Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson

No 1169, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers will, on average, be more skilled than male managers, since females from the low end of the talent distribution will abstain from investing in a career as a manager. The average female manager will then be better at mitigating more intense product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers will therefore increase relative to those of male managers. Using Swedish matched employer-employee data, we find strong empirical evidence for all these predictions.

Keywords: Career; Gender wage-gap; Job inflexibility; Management; Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J70 L20 M50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 74 pages
Date: 2017-05-15, Revised 2023-03-06
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Working Paper: Talent, Career Choice and Competition: The Gender Wage Gap at the Top (2020)
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