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Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. |
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Getting Ahead: The Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women IZA Discussion Paper No. 288, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), April 2001. Also: ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp288.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Labor Market Outcomes; Wage Effects; Wage Gap; Wage Growth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion process and the importance of promotions in the relative labor market outcomes of young men and women in their early careers. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In answering these questions, alternative definitions of "promotion" will be considered. Copyright: IZA Getting ahead matters - particularly for women. The results indicate that women are less likely to be promoted. This gender gap in promotions - the magnitude of which depends on the measure of promotion considered - is explained by differences in the returns to characteristics. Had men and women in our sample faced the same promotion standard, promotion rates would have been higher for women than for men. Furthermore, the share of overall wage growth attributable to promotion is much larger for women than for men reflecting a bifurcation in outcomes between women who get ahead and women who get left behind. Eliminating gender differences in the determinants of and wage payoffs to promotion would contribute to a narrowing of the gender wage gap. This paper is also available from: Australian National University Working Paper No. 395. Australian National University - National Centre for Development Studies (NCDS). http://econpapers.hhs.se/paper/fthaunaep/395.htm |
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Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. "Getting Ahead: The Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women." IZA Discussion Paper No. 288, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), April 2001. |
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Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. Dunlop, Yvonne |
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The Role of Gender in Job Promotions Monthly Labor Review 122,12 (December 1999): 32-38 Also: http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1999/12/art4abs.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Gender; Gender Differences; Job Promotion; Unemployment Rate Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicate that most young men and women are promoted in their jobs on the basis of performance; although a gender gap in the rate of promotion does exist, the gap was smaller in 1996 than in 1990. This article examines the role of gender in the promotion process for young men and women early in their careers. It first highlights the qualitative nature of promotions and then focuses on who gets promoted by considering the characteristics of men and women who have been promoted. Finally, the relationship between labor market conditions-in particular, unemployment rates, and employment growth in industries and occupations-and promotion is assessed. |
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Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. and Yvonne Dunlop. "The Role of Gender in Job Promotions." Monthly Labor Review 122,12 (December 1999): 32-38.
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Kossoudji, Sherrie A. Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. |
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Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning about Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population Journal of Labor Economics 20,3 (July 2002): 598-628. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/339611 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Amnesty / Legalized Population; Employment; Immigrants; Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA); Wage Determination; Wage Levels The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) granted amnesty to approximately 1.7 million long-term unauthorized workers in an effort to bring them "out of the shadows" and improve their labor market opportunities. An analysis of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men provides evidence that wage determinants are structurally different after amnesty for them but not for the comparison group as measured during the same time periods. The wage penalty for being unauthorized is estimated to range from 14% to 24%. The wage benefit of legalization under IRCA was approximately 6%. |
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Bibliography Citation
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. and Deborah A. Cobb-Clark. "Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning about Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population." Journal of Labor Economics 20,3 (July 2002): 598-628.
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