Do Female–Owned Employment Agencies Mitigate Discrimination and Expand Opportunity for Women?

Jennifer Hunt and Carolyn Moehling

No 32383, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We create a dataset of 14,000 help–wanted advertisements placed by U.S. employment agencies in 1950 and 1960, when help–wanted advertisements specified gender, and collect information on agency ownership. Female–owned agencies specialized in vacancies for women, expanding access of female job–seekers to agency services. They also advertised more skilled occupations to women than did male–owned agencies, leading to 5% higher wages for women. But they advertised more clerical jobs to men, contributing to 17% lower male wages. However, the gender wage gap within agency was the same for female-and male–owned agencies, suggesting no mitigation of discrimination.

JEL-codes: J16 J63 J71 N32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-04
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