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Title: Essays in Labor Economics
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1. D'Angelis, Ilaria
Essays in Labor Economics
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Boston College, 2022
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Job Patterns; Wage Gap

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Chapter 1 provides an in-depth analysis of the evolution of the careers of Millennial American college graduates from labor market entry to five to ten years later. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997) I neatly reconstruct workers' careers from labor market entry and provide a variety of reduced-form evidence showing that gender differences in the wage gains that workers obtain when they change jobs determine a large portion of the early-career gender wage gap and of its expansion over years of experience. I show that these results are robust and hold irrespective of young workers' marital and parental status.

In light of the results provided in Chapter 1, in Chapter 2 I study the contribution of the main determinants of wage gains from job changes to the early-career gender wage gap among highly-educated American workers.

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D'Angelis, Ilaria. Essays in Labor Economics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Boston College, 2022.