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Vocational training and gender : wages and occupational mobility among young workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid
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2005-08
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Abstract
This 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.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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2005:14

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