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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

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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.

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halshs-01206083 , version 1 (28-09-2015)

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Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs, Sébastien Roux. Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs. Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (2), pp.317 - 363. ⟨10.1086/678495⟩. ⟨halshs-01206083⟩
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