Gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market

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This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999-2009. A framework of analysis provided by the overeducation/required education/undereducation literature is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect the influence of the mismeasurement of actual labour market experience in the conventional education and experience earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6595

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Labor Discrimination: General
• Subject: gender ; graduates ; overeducation ; discrimination ; Lohndifferenzierung ; Akademiker ; Unterbeschäftigung ; Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung ; Geschlechterdiskriminierung ; Australien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Li, Ian W. ; Miller, Paul W.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62383
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201305226087
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET