• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs
  • Contributor: Gobillon, Laurent [Author]; Meurs, Dominique [Other]; Roux, Sébastien [Other]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2012]
  • Published in: IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 6928
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (57 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2164657
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 20, 2012 erstellt
  • Description: 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 females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric 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
  • Access State: Open Access