Journal Article
Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy
Authors
Publication date
05 Jan 2011
Summary
This paper investigates the contribution of gender differences in job mobility to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that over the first 10 years of labour market experience job mobility accounts for up to 30% of total log wage growth for men and only 8.3% for women, and that this difference is mainly due to differences in returns to mobility. The gender mobility gap is robust to the inclusion of individual, job and firm characteristics, to different ways of accounting for individual unobserved heterogeneity, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Looking at the characteristics of the jobs and the firms' workers move to, we find that moves to larger firms represent by far the main source of gender differences in returns to mobility. We offer two possible explanations for this finding; one which involves differences in bargaining behaviour and one which relates to the theory of compensating differentials.
Published in
Labour Economics
Volume and page numbers
18 , 130 -142
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2010.06.002
ISSN
16
Subjects
Labour Economics and Wages And Earnings
Links
http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1650556~S5
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