Title: Job Tasks and the Gender Wage Gap among College Graduates
Abstract: Gender differences in current and past job tasks may be crucial for understanding the gender wage gap.We use novel task data to address well-known measurement concerns, including that standard task measures assume away within-occupation gender differences in tasks.We find that unique measures of task-specific experience, in particular high-skilled information experience, are of particular importance for understanding the substantial widening of the wage gap early in the career.Highlighting the importance of these measures, traditional work-related proxies for gender differences in human capital accumulation are not informative because general work experience is similar by gender for our recent graduates.