Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Differences in Job Search

Astrid Kunze and Kenneth Troske

No 4656, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into account observed and unobserved worker heterogeneity and censoring. Simple survival functions show that displaced women take longer to find a new job than comparable men. Disaggregation by age groups reveals that these differences are driven by differential behavior of prime age women. There is no significant difference in job search duration among the very young and older workers. These differential outcomes remain even after we control for differences in human capital, and when time dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are incorporated into the model.

Keywords: displaced workers; job search; gender differences; wage differences; discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J63 J64 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2009-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hrm and nep-lab
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Published - published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 176-185

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Journal Article: Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search (2012)
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