Journal Article
Wages, experience, and training of women over the life cycle
Authors
Publication date
Jan 2021
Summary
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the British Household Panel Survey. On the basis of a life-cycle model and using tax and welfare benefit reforms as a source of exogenous variation, we evaluate the role of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment careers, conditional on education. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after completing high school, but does not fundamentally change the wage gap resulting from labor market interruptions following child birth.
Published in
Journal of Labor Economics
Volume and page numbers
39 , 275 -315
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/711400
ISSN
16
Subjects
Human Capital, Training: Labour Market, Education, Labour Market, Childbearing: Fertility, Welfare Benefits, Wages And Earnings, Taxation, and Life Course Analysis
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