Authors:

  • Claudia Goldin
  • Lawrence Katz

Excerpt

Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors. Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, January 2009, Paper. "This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical (labor) incomes at the outset of their careers, their earnings soon diverge, with the male annual earnings..." Link