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Bargaining and inequality in the labor market

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jӧrg - 2025

We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies...

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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 …

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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 …

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Flexible wages, bargaining, and the gender gap

Biasi, Barbara; Sarsons, Heather - 2020

Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question we analyze the wages of public-school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts to set teachers' pay more flexibly and engage in individual negotiations. Using quasi-exogenous variation in the...

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Gender differences in job search and the earnings gap: evidence from business majors

Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica; Pilossoph, Laura; … - 2021

To understand gender differences in the job search process, we collect rich information on job offers and acceptances … search period. Using survey data on risk preferences and beliefs about expected future earnings, we present empirical … evidence that the patterns in job search can be partly explained by the higher levels of risk aversion displayed by women and …

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Gender equality bargaining in France and the UK : an uphill struggle?

Milner, Susan; Gregory, Abigail - In: The journal of industrial relations : the journal of … 56 (2014) 2, pp. 246-263

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The rules of the game : local wage bargaining and the gender pay gap

Olsson, Maria; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2024

We study how local bargaining institutions affect the within-job gender wage gap among Swedish blue collar workers. Collective agreements with varying degrees of local flexibility tend to cover blue-collar workers across different occupations within the same firm. As a consequence, workers...

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Barriers to entry : decomposing the gender gap in job search in urban Pakistan

Gentile, Elisabetta; Kohli, Nikita; Subramanian, Nivedhitha - 2023

supply side, educated women become more selective in their search. …

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Motherhood and the cost of job search

Philippe, Arnaud; Skandalis, Daphné - 2023

new mechanism: search frictions. We analyze data on job applications sent on a popular online platform linked with … administrative data for 350,000 involuntarily unemployed workers in France. First, we highlight differences in job search behavior … applications are sent and highlight differences in the timing of job search. We find that mothers' rate of applications decreases …

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Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap : A Direct Assessment

Card, David E. - 2013

An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...

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