Abstract

We use the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society data set to learn about gender gaps during the early career of college graduates in Europe. We document substantial heterogeneity across fields of education in the gender wage gap at the entrance to the labour market. We find that the gap evolves against women over the five years after graduation in Social Science and in Economics, Business, and Law. Finally, we estimate a significant female wage growth penalty after we control for observable characteristics only within the Economics, Business, and Law category. Within this field, we estimate a female annual wage growth penalty of 1.1 percentage points among individuals who remained childless and 2.5 percentage points among individuals who became parents. A small fraction of the wage growth gap disappears after we control for variables capturing individual differences in job mobility or in labour market attachment during the early career. (JEL codes: J16, J24, J31)

中文翻译：

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年轻大学毕业生跨学科的工资增长：是否存在性别差距？

摘要

我们使用知识社会数据集中的灵活专业人员来了解欧洲大学毕业生早期职业生涯中的性别差距。我们记录了劳动力市场入口处性别工资差距在教育领域的巨大异质性。我们发现，在社会科学、经济、商业和法律专业毕业后的五年内，这种差距对女性不利。最后，在我们仅控制经济、商业和法律类别中的可观察特征后，我们估计女性工资增长会显着增加。在该领域内，我们估计在没有孩子的个人中女性年工资增长损失为 1.1 个百分点，在成为父母的个人中为 2.5 个百分点。在我们控制了捕捉早期职业生涯中工作流动性或劳动力市场依恋的个体差异的变量后，工资增长差距的一小部分消失了。（JEL 代码：J16、J24、J31）