The paper seeks to separate the signalling effect of education on first entry into the labour market and the long‐term influence of its human capital component on earnings. It is claimed that large firms attach more importance than small ones to the signalling component of education. Thus it...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test whether the gender wage gap at the beginning of the working life in France varies with the gender composition of occupations (male-dominated, female-dominated or mixed) and its main determinant (educational pre-sorting or labour market sorting)....