The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fluchtmann, Jonas; Glenny, Anita M.; Harmon, Nikolaj A.; Maibom, Jonas
• 署名单位: Aarhus University; University of Copenhagen
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20210607
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 182-219
• 关键词: high wage workers; MARKET; DISCRIMINATION; segregation; WORKPLACE; inference; CHILDREN

摘要

Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide evidence on gender differences in applied-for jobs for the broader labor market. Across a range of job characteristics, we find large gender gaps in the share of applications going to different job types even among observationally similar men and women. In a standard decomposition, gender differences in applications can explain more than 70 J71)