Heterogeneity in gender wage growth gap across fields of study in Europe
June 29, 2022This paper analyzes the early career dynamics of wages of European college graduates using data from the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society, a retrospective survey interviewing individuals a few years after their graduation in 1999/2000. The sample includes individuals from Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, Portugal and Norway. The paper finds a gender gap of 0.7 percentage points on an average annual raw wage growth over the five-year period after graduation of 6 1/2%.
Portugal presents the lowest average wage growth, 3.3%, and the highest gender gap of 2.2 percentage points.
These findings are in line with Bütikofer et al. (2018), who find that the child earnings penalty for mothers is larger among MBAs and lawyers than among STEM and Medicine graduates in Norway, and in line with the evidence reported in Goldin (2014) for the case of the US.
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