Women move differently: Job separations and gender

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.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Hirsch, Boris ; Schnabel, Claus
Publisher:	Erlangen-Nürnberg : Univ., Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
Subject:	Weibliche Arbeitskräfte \| Arbeitsmobilität \| Frauenerwerbstätigkeit \| Arbeitslosigkeit \| Unternehmen \| Schätzung \| Deutschland \| job separations \| gender \| gender pay gap \| Germany

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Series:	Diskussionspapiere // Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik ; 69
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	636403181 [GVK] hdl:10419/41458 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:faulre:69 [RePEc]
Classification:	J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; J63 - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; J16 - Economics of Gender
Source:	EconStor