Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sebastien
• 署名单位: Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Universite Paris Nanterre
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/678495
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 317-363
• 关键词: assignment; firm; gap

摘要

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for a female and a male at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a nonparametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for French full-time executives aged 40-45 in the private sector. Our results show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females thus have a significantly lower access to high-paid jobs than to low-paid jobs.