Dynamics of the gender gap for young professionals in the financial and corporate sectors

"The careers of MBAs from a top US business school are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical earnings at the outset of their careers, their earnings soon diverge, with the male earnings advantage reaching almost 60 log po...

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Published in:American economic journal. Applied economics 2010-07, Vol.2 (3), p.228-255
Main Authors: Bertrand, Marianne, Goldin, Claudia, Katz, Lawrence F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arbeitskräfteangebot
Arbeitszeit
Beruf
Berufsverlauf
Business education
Business schools
Careers
Childbirth
Children
College graduates
Colleges & universities
Earnings
Economic models
Economic theory
Economics
Einkommensunterschied
Employment
Erwerbsunterbrechung
Executives
Familie
Familienstand
Females
Frau
Gender differences
Gender pay gap
Geschlechtsspezifik
Hochschulabsolvent
Labor supply
Lohnhöhe
Mann
MBA
MBA programs & graduates
Men
Mothers
Mutter
Professionals
Qualifikationsniveau
Self employment
Sex discrimination
Spouses
Studies
USA
Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
Women
Working women
Young adults
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Summary:"The careers of MBAs from a top US business school are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical earnings at the outset of their careers, their earnings soon diverge, with the male earnings advantage reaching almost 60 log points a decade after MBA completion. Three proximate factors account for the large and rising gender gap in earnings: differences in training prior to MBA graduation, differences in career interruptions, and differences in weekly hours. The greater career discontinuity and shorter work hours for female MBAs are largely associated with motherhood." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Sekundäranalyse; empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1990 bis 2006. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
ISSN:1945-7790
1945-7782
1945-7790
DOI:10.1257/app.2.3.228