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Le Barbanchon, Thomas, Rathelot, Roland and Roulet, Alexandra (2021) Gender differences in job search : trading off commute against wage. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 136 (1). pp. 381-426. doi:10.1093/qje/qjaa033 ISSN 0033-5533.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaa033
Abstract
We relate gender differences in willingness to commute to the gender wage gap. Using French administrative data on job search criteria, we first document that unemployed women have a lower reservation wage and a shorter maximum acceptable commute than their male counterparts. We then identify indifference curves between wage and commute using the joint distributions of reservation job attributes and of accepted job bundles. Indifference curves are steeper for women, who value commute around 20% more than men. Controlling in particular for the previous job, newly hired women are paid after unemployment 4% less per hour and have a 12% shorter commute than men. Through the lens of a job search model where commuting matters, we estimate that gender differences in commute valuation can account for a 0.5 log point hourly wage deficit for women, i.e., 14 percent of the residualized gender wage gap. Finally, we use job application data to test the robustness of our results and to show that female workers do not receive less demand from far-away employers, confirming that most of the gender gap in commute is supply-side driven.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women -- Economic conditions -- 21st century, Women -- Employment -- France, Job hunting -- France, Women -- Time management , Commuters -- France, Commuting -- France, Wages -- Women -- 21st century, Wage differentials -- France | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Quarterly Journal of Economics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0033-5533 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | February 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 136 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 381-426 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/qje/qjaa033 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Quarterly Journal of Economics following peer review. The version of record [insert complete citation information here] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaa033 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 October 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 November 2020 | ||||||||
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