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Title: Determinants of Wage Growth After Labor Market Reentry
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Shaw, Lois B. |
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Determinants of Wage Growth After Labor Market Reentry Report, Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1984 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Discrimination; Earnings; Wage Growth; Work Reentry This report uses the NLS Mature Women's cohort to examine wage growth after labor market reentry among women who returned to work between 1967 and 1979. Looking at the first few years after reentry, we find evidence of above- average wage growth among women who changed employers after reentering, but little evidence of a wage rebound effect for other reentrants. This finding provides support for the hypothesis that some reentrants' wages are low because their first reentry jobs are below the level that their skills warrant. The long-run results follow a larger group of reentrants over a ten-year period. Among this group, those who worked at full-time jobs experienced a higher rate of wage growth than nonentrants. Employer changing was not a source of wage growth over this longer period. On average, nonentrants in this sample--even those who had worked full time for the entire ten years--showed little wage growth. The higher wage growth among reentrants may be due in part to their undertaking additional education or training when they enter and partly to their lower initial wages, which allow for greater growth before a plateau is reached. |
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Shaw, Lois B. "Determinants of Wage Growth After Labor Market Reentry." Report, Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1984. |