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Wages, Experience, and Training of Women over the Life Cycle

Richard Blundell^1,2; Monica Costa Dias; David Goll^1,2; Costas Meghir^3,4,1

¹ Institute for Fiscal Studies · ² University College London · ³ Center for Economic and Policy Research · ⁴ National Bureau of Economic Research

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the British Household Panel Survey. On the basis of a life-cycle model and using tax and welfare benefit reforms as a source of exogenous variation, we evaluate the role of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment careers, conditional on education. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after completing high school, but does not fundamentally change the wage gap resulting from labor market interruptions following child birth.

DOI

10.1086/711400

Volume

39 (S1)

Pages

S275-S315

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en

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