Schöller Fellow Dr. Benjamin Lochner (with C. Merkl) published an article in The Economic Journal, one of the leading general interest economics journals published by the British Royal Economic Society.
In the paper “Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap”, the authors examine how gender-specific application behavior influences the remaining wage gap between men and women. To do so, they link the IAB Job Vacancy Survey, which contains gender-specific application information at the job level, with administrative data from the IAB. The authors show that even within narrowly defined occupations, women are significantly less likely than men to apply for high-paying jobs with high flexibility requirements (e.g., overtime, business trips). This difference in application behavior explains a significant part of the remaining gender pay gap. The model shows that the wage difference is strongly related to compensation payments for the aforementioned job requirements and that higher flexibility requirements on the part of employers are associated with greater wage losses for mothers.
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