Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender

Boris Hirsch and Claus Schnabel

No 5154, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and workplace characteristics and unobserved plant heterogeneity. These differences vanish once we allow these characteristics to affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men.

Keywords: job separations; gender; gender pay gap; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J62 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2010-08
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Published - published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (4), 417-442

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