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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....

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Gender gaps in Latin American labor markets: implications from an estimated search model

Tejada, Mauricio; Piras, Claudia; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2021

We develop and estimate a search model that captures the specific characteristics of Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) labor markets and the crucial differences between men and women. Labor force participation decisions are integrated in the labor market dynamics, taking into account sample...

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Occupational Match Quality and Gender Over Two Cohorts

Addison, John T. - 2019

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Meritocracy across countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

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The gender gap in career trajectories : do firms matter?

Card, David E.; Devicienti, Francesco; Rossi, Mariacristina - 2025

The gender wage gap rises with experience. To what extent do firm policies mediate this rise? We use administrative data from Italy to identify workers' first jobs and compute wage growth over the next 5 years. We then decompose the contribution of first employers to the rise in the gender wage...

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The gender gap in career trajectories : do firms matter?

Card, David E.; Devicienti, Francesco; Rossi, Mariacristina - 2025

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Occupational gender segregation in an equilibrium search model

Usui, Emiko - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-14

This paper develops an equilibrium search model to explain gender asymmetry in occupational distribution. Workers' utility depends on salary and working hours, and women have a greater aversion to longer working hours than men. Simulations indicate that women crowd into shorter-hour,...

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There and back again : women's marginal commuting costs

Bergemann, Annette; Brunow, Stephan; Stockton, Isabel - 2024

We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a partial-equilibrium model of job search with non-wage job attributes. Commuting costs have implications not just for congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure...

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There and back again : women's marginal commuting costs

Bergemann, Annette; Brunow, Stephan; Stockton, Isabel - 2024

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Skills, job application strategies, and the gender wage gap : evidence from online freelancing

Teutloff, Ole; Stenzhorn, Eliza; Kässi, Otto - 2025

This paper examines how worker skills and job application behavior contribute to the gender wage gap on a major online freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with women over-represented in lower-paying project categories and tending to earn less than men...

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