Gender Wage Gap at Career Entry. A Quantitative Analysis for Switzerland

Bertschy, Kathrin; Walker, Philipp; Baeriswyl, Annick; Marti, Michael (2014). Gender Wage Gap at Career Entry. A Quantitative Analysis for Switzerland. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie / Swiss journal of sociology / Revue suisse de sociologie, 40(2), pp. 279-305. Seismo Press

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Economic theories focus on gender differences in human capital investment, built up with occupational experience, to explain the gender wage gap. Given that young women now match or surpass men’s educational achievements, gender differences in early career wages should not occur. Using Swiss longitudinal TREE Data, the empirical analysis of career entry wages in Switzerland show that young women have lower earnings because traditional female occupations are paid less. In addition, they often choose specific work contents that go together with lower compensation. Even equally qualified women with identical occupational training working in gender-mixed occupations start with lower wages than men. The unexplained component of the wage difference is about 7% when entering the labor market.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology

ISSN:

0379-3664

Publisher:

Seismo Press

Projects:

[1036] Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE) Official URL

Language:

German

Submitter:

Sandra Hupka-Brunner

Date Deposited:

21 Aug 2019 12:35

Last Modified:

27 Jun 2024 09:44

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Uncontrolled Keywords:

career entry education gender wage discrimination Wage gap Ausbildung Berufseinstieg Lohndifferenz Lohndiskriminierung discrimination salariale Ecart salarial entrée dans la vie active formation genre Lohndifferenz Lohndiskriminierung Ausbildung Berufseinstieg Gender

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.130853

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/130853

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