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LABOUR-ENGLAND
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 291-314Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00409.x
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The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and women during their working careers. We provide a dynamic model of statistical discrimination, which integrates specific human capital decisions: on-the-job training investment and wages are endogenously determined. We reveal a small wage differential at the beginning of women's career, but women's wages increase more slowly; this is partly due to a lower level of human capital investment by women and partly because firms smooth training costs between different periods.
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