Affiliation:
1. Aarhus University; OECD (email: )
2. Aarhus University (email: )
3. University of Copenhagen (email: )
4. Aarhus University, IZA, and ECONAU (email: )
Abstract
Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide evidence on gender differences in applied-for jobs for the broader labor market. Across a range of job characteristics, we find large gender gaps in the share of applications going to different job types even among observationally similar men and women. In a standard decomposition, gender differences in applications can explain more than 70 percent of the residual gender wage gap. (JEL J16, J31, J64, J65, J71)
Publisher
American Economic Association
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