The Labor Market Consequences of Gender Differences in Job Search

Stefan Eriksson and Jonas Lagerström ()
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Jonas Lagerström: Department of Economics, Åbo Akademi

No 2008:10, Working Paper Series from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by differences in occupation and place of residence, and to a large extent is explained by differences in geographical search area. When we take into account differences in search area, the negative gender effect disappears. However, the results differ somewhat across subgroups: For highly skilled women a negative gender effect remains.

Keywords: Job Search; Gender Differences; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-10-24
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