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December 1999

The role of gender in job promotions

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Yvonne Dunlop

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicate that most young men and women are promoted in their jobs on the basis of performance; although a gender gap in the rate of promotion does exist, the gap was smaller in 1996 than in 1990

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