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Title: The Gender Gap in Raise Magnitudes of Hourly and Salary Workers
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1. Artz, Benjamin
Taengnoi, Sarinda
The Gender Gap in Raise Magnitudes of Hourly and Salary Workers
Journal of Labor Research 40,1 (March 2019): 84-105.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12122-018-9277-8
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Gender Differences; Risk-Taking; Wage Gap; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty

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The gender gap in promotions literature typically uses survey to survey imputed hourly wage changes to measure the earnings effects of promotions alone. By distinction, we study raises with and without promotions using data within surveys that uniquely identify both the current and most recent wages of hourly workers separate from salary workers. In cross-section estimates we identify a gender gap in raise magnitude favoring men only among hourly workers who achieve promotions, but this result vanishes in fixed effects estimates. No gender gaps emerge in any other instance, including for salary workers and raises absent of promotion. We further contribute to the literature by uniquely controlling for natural ability and risk preferences of the workers, the time passed since earning the raise, and also whether the responsibility of the worker's job changed with the raise.
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Artz, Benjamin and Sarinda Taengnoi. "The Gender Gap in Raise Magnitudes of Hourly and Salary Workers." Journal of Labor Research 40,1 (March 2019): 84-105.