Moving apart: job-driven residential mobility and the gender pay gap Evidence from a large industrial firm

Mathieu Bunel, Dominique Meurs and Elisabeth Tovar

No 2024-6, EconomiX Working Papers from University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX

Abstract: This article uses a 15-year panel data set from a large French industrial firm to investigate the role of intra-firm job-driven residential mobility on the gender pay gap of executives. We find that job-driven residential mobility is highly profitable for both male and female workers due to a generous mobility bonus policy, but that it does not affect their careers. We also find that female executives are less likely than males to experience job-driven residential mobility, and that it brings higher gains to male relative to female executives. However, these differences between men and women linked to the mobility allowance make limited contribution to the total gender pay gap, which is almost entirely due to other bonuses linked to the positions held.

Keywords: insider econometrics; personnel economics; gender pay gap; job mobility; residential mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 M12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2024
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-gen, nep-hrm, nep-lma, nep-mig and nep-ure
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