Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 6, 2020 erstellt
Description:
Using Google Trends data to identify hostile sexism across media markets in the U.S., we find that sexism explains about 8 cents (or 41 percent) of the residual gender wage gap, the wage gap after controlling for education, occupation, industry, and age. We find evidence for both a direct effect of sexism that would be consistent with explicit labor market discrimination and an indirect effect that works through generating social outcomes that reduce hours worked which itself directly affects hourly wages. Consistent with economic theories of discrimination, the direct impact of sexism is greater for women who are less educated, work in less competitive industries, and work in industries with a lower share of female workers