The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?

Jonas Fluchtmann, Anita M. Glenny, Nikolaj A. Harmon and Jonas Maibom

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, vol. 16, issue 2, 182-219

Abstract: Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide evidence on gender differences in applied-for jobs for the broader labor market. Across a range of job characteristics, we find large gender gaps in the share of applications going to different job types even among observationally similar men and women. In a standard decomposition, gender differences in applications can explain more than 70 percent of the residual gender wage gap.

JEL-codes: J16 J31 J64 J65 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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