Do women ask for lower salaries? The supply side of the gender pay gap

Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Department of Economics Working Papers from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Abstract: We explore a new rich dataset of online asking wages from a large online job application platform in Argentina. We find that women, on average, ask for a significant 6% less than men, a gender ask gap that increases with the “level” of the position (proxied, alternatively, by the seniority of the position and its average requested wage), virtually disappears for women in the 45-64 range, and is significantly smaller for female-dominated occupations, as measured by the female-to-male ratio.

Keywords: asking wage gap; gender wage gap; supply-side gender pay gap. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2018-07
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