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