Career Interrupted For What Reason? Job Interruptions And Their Wage Effects

This paper examines whether controlling for the type of career interruption has different effects on mens and womens wages. One argument for the persistence of the gender wage gap is that previously researchers have used poor measures of experience to estimate mens and womens wages. This paper extends the career interruption literature by estimating mens and womens wages including controls for both the type and timing of interruptions. Findings...