https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/laurent-gobillon/Laurent GobillonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/life-cycle-wages-and-human-capital-investments-selection-and-missing-data/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/life-cycle-wages-and-human-capital-investments-selection-and-missing-data/<p><strong>Research Question</strong></p> <p>This paper asks how wage inequalities build up over the life cycle when individual wage trajectories are plagued by interruptions in private-sector participation, and when the standard Missing At Random (MAR) assumption used to handle those gaps may be violated. Specifically, it asks: what is the causal effect of career interruptions on both the level and the dispersion of wages after twenty years of potential experience, and does endogeneity of those interruptions matter for the dispersion result?</p>