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dc.contributor.authorFitzenberger, Bernden
dc.contributor.authorKunze, Astriden
dc.date.accessioned2006-01-19-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T09:13:45Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T09:13:45Z-
dc.date.issued2005-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/33662-
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make occupational career choices early during their careers and women and men pursue very different occupational careers. We reconsider whether through occupational segregation women are locked in low wage careers (Kunze, 2005) or whether they can move up to higher wage paths through mobility. We furthermore investigate whether patterns have changed across cohorts during the period 1975 and 2001 and whether effects vary across the distribution. The main results are: First, while there exists a persistent gender wage gap over experience, the gap has decreased over time. Second, in the lower part of the wage distribution, the gap is highest and it increases with experience. Third, occupational mobility is lower for women than for men and the wage gains due to occupational mobility are higher for men than for women, especially in the lower part of the wage distribution. We conclude that occupational mobility has reduced the gender wage gap, but lock-in effects are still stronger for women compared to men.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1766en
dc.subject.jelC21en
dc.subject.jelJ16en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelJ31en
dc.subject.jelJ62en
dc.subject.jelJ7en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordgender wage gapen
dc.subject.keywordactual experienceen
dc.subject.keywordoccupational mobilityen
dc.subject.keywordapprenticeshipen
dc.subject.stwBetriebliche Berufsausbildungen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsmobilitäten
dc.subject.stwLohndifferenzierungen
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.subject.stwGeschlechterdiskriminierungen
dc.titleVocational training and gender: wages and occupational mobility among young workers-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn505940671en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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