@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6928, author={Gobillon, Laurent and Meurs, Dominique and Roux, Sébastien}, title={Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs}, year={2012}, month={Oct}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={6928}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6928}, abstract={This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for French full-time executives aged 40-45 in the private sector. Our results show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females thus have a significantly lower access to high-paid jobs than to low-paid jobs.}, keywords={glass ceiling;discrimination;wages;quantiles;gender;job assignment model}, }