Moving Up or Falling Behind? Gender, Promotions, and Wages in Canada

Mohsen Javdani and Andrew McGee

No 9380, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We estimate gender differences in internal promotion experiences for a representative sample of Canadian workers using linked employer-employee data. We find that women in Canada are 3 percentage points less likely to be promoted and have received fewer promotions than similar men, but these differences stem almost entirely from gender differences in industry and occupation. By contrast, women experience an estimated 2.9 percent less wage growth in the year of a promotion than similar men even after controlling for industry, occupation, and firm effects – though a significant "family gap" exists among women as single women and women without children experience essentially the same wage returns to promotion as men.

Keywords: gender wage gap; promotions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J62 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2015-09
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Published - published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2019, 58 (2), 189-228.

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