Seminar

Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder

Sébastien Roux (Crest-Insee)

September 22, 2009, 17:00–18:30

Toulouse

Room MF 323

Econometrics Seminar

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs.Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the probability ratio of females and males getting a given job position. As this ratio is allowed to vary with the rank of jobs in the wage distribution of positions, barriers in females' access to high-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full-time executives aged 40

JEL codes

  • J16: Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
  • J31: Wage Level and Structure • Wage Differentials
  • J71: Discrimination