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Applied Economics
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Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages
蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 100–133)
Abstract
We estimate the full distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of men and women in the United States using a quantile selection model to account for systematic differences in employment by gender and education group. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor market inequalities across gender, important additional differences by birth cohort emerge with more recent cohorts of women delaying child rearing and, by implication, the onset of child penalties in wages. These cross-cohort differences help account for the stalling of progress in gender wage gaps over the past quarter century.Citation
Blundell, Richard, Hugo Lopez, and James P. Ziliak. 2025. "Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages." 蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics 17 (4): 100–133. DOI: 10.1257/app.20220454Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D15 Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
- J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials