Blundell, Richard;
Lopez, Hugo;
Ziliak, James P;
(2025)
Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
, 17
(4)
pp. 100-133.
10.1257/app.20220454.
Preview |
PDF
AEJ-Applied-Blundell-Ziliak.pdf - Published Version Download (917kB) | Preview |
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. (JEL D15, J13, J16, J24, J31)
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1257/app.20220454 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20220454 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214539 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
