Arbeitspapier
High School Experiences, the Gender Wage Gap, and the Selection of Occupation
Using within-high-school variation and controlling for a measure of cognitive ability, this paper finds that high-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender wage gap and selection into management occupations. Our 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, our results leave less room for direct labor market discrimination as a driver of the gender wage gap and occupation selection.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9277
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Thema
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gender wage gap
noncognitive skills
occupational choice
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Strain, Michael R.
Webber, Douglas A.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Strain, Michael R.
- Webber, Douglas A.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2015
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