2017 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Early careers of female researcher - fixed term contract, timing of birth, and research productivity
| Project/Area Number |
15K17077
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
高橋 アナマリア 神戸大学, 経済学研究科, 特任講師 (00634635)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | Gender salary gap / Gender promotion gap / Motherhood wage penalty / Research productivity |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In this year, I published one article titled “Gender Gaps in STEM in Japanese Academia: The Impact of Research Productivity, Outside Offers, and Home Life on Pay”. To understand differences in labor market outcomes between genders, economists must examine a complex array of potentially significant factors, such as institutional context, productivity differences, child-bearing and home production, and bargaining behavior. Many of these factors are not well captured by standard data sources. I use a new survey of academics in Japan to better understand the sources of gender pay differences. I find a 6% pay gap which persists when we control for research productivity, despite an institutional context shaped by explicit salary tables. I do not find a motherhood wage penalty, and the gender salary we document is not affected by differences in outside job offers. In addition, I have started writing another research paper on the gender promotion gap in Japanese academia using the entire sample of Academics in Japan, using MEXT statistics of school teachers.
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