Modes of entrance by gender and wage differential in the French labour market
Labour. Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
2006
20
4
December
581-599
employment opportunity ; entry into working life ; gender ; statistics ; wage differential
Employment
English
Bibliogr.
"This paper explores the gender wage differential after the exit from school in France. Using survey longitudinal data on young men and women leaving the French school system in 1998, we show that the residual entrance-level wage differential by gender may be explained by the expected gender differential of access to job opportunities. A hierarchical classification is used to estimate the probability to obtain easy access to non-subsidized jobs. After control for hours worked and hierarchical levels, and for the predicted values of this previous estimation, we find no significant impact of gender on entrance-level wages."
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