TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kunze, Astrid
AU  - Troske, Kenneth
        TI  - Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Differences in Job Search
        PY  - 2009/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4656
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4656
        AB  - We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into account observed and unobserved worker heterogeneity and censoring. Simple survival functions show that displaced women take longer to find a new job than comparable men. Disaggregation by age groups reveals that these differences are driven by differential behavior of prime age women. There is no significant difference in job search duration among the very young and older workers. These differential outcomes remain even after we control for differences in human capital, and when time dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are incorporated into the model.
        KW  - displaced workers
KW  - job search
KW  - gender differences
KW  - wage differences
KW  - discrimination
        ER  -