TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender differences in Career
AU - Sato, Kaori
AU - Hashimoto, Yuki
AU - Owan, Hideo
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was conducted as part of the project “Economic Analysis of Human Resource Allocation Mechanisms within the Firm: Insider econometrics using HR data” undertaken at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). The authors are grateful for helpful comments and suggestions by Masaru Sasaki (Osaka University), Daiji Kawaguchi (University of Tokyo.), Ayako Kondo (University of Tokyo), Ryuichi Tanaka (University of Tokyo) and Discussion Paper seminar participants at RIETI. This work was also supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP25245041 and 18H03632.
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PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Past literature has shown that job segregation by gender is one major cause of the widely observed gender pay gap and that there are also gender differences in developmental job assignment for broader job experience. This paper examines how gender differences in job assignment are associated with the gender gap in pay and promotion using the personnel records of a Japanese manufacturing company. One of the major findings is that broader work experience through job transfers across establishments are associated with a higher promotion probability and future wages for employees of both genders, but this relationship is especially strong for women, which is consistent with the selection and signaling explanations based on statistical discrimination against women. Furthermore, according to our fixed effects model estimation of wage function, broader work experience leads to higher wages for men but not for women, implying that women accept promotions with smaller pay raises than men, which is consistent with the sticky floors model.
AB - Past literature has shown that job segregation by gender is one major cause of the widely observed gender pay gap and that there are also gender differences in developmental job assignment for broader job experience. This paper examines how gender differences in job assignment are associated with the gender gap in pay and promotion using the personnel records of a Japanese manufacturing company. One of the major findings is that broader work experience through job transfers across establishments are associated with a higher promotion probability and future wages for employees of both genders, but this relationship is especially strong for women, which is consistent with the selection and signaling explanations based on statistical discrimination against women. Furthermore, according to our fixed effects model estimation of wage function, broader work experience leads to higher wages for men but not for women, implying that women accept promotions with smaller pay raises than men, which is consistent with the sticky floors model.
KW - Gender wage gap
KW - Job assignment
KW - Promotion
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jjie.2019.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jjie.2019.04.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065062373
SN - 0889-1583
VL - 53
JO - Journal of The Japanese and International Economies
JF - Journal of The Japanese and International Economies
M1 - 101028
ER -
