TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lochner, Benjamin
AU  - Merkl, Christian
        TI  - Gender-Specific Application Behavior, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap
        PY  - 2023/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16686
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16686
        AB  - This paper analyzes the relationship between gender-specific application behavior, employer-side flexibility requirements, and the gender earnings gap using a unique combination of the German Job Vacancy Survey (JVS) linked to administrative employment records. We document that women have a substantially lower probability of applying to jobs with high flexibility requirements at high-wage firms than do men but have the same probability of being hired upon application. In our two-stage search model, these empirical patterns are rationalized by firms compensating workers for meeting employer-side flexibility requirements. Consistently, we empirically show that among women, mothers face the largest earnings discounts relative to men in jobs with high flexibility requirements.
        KW  - gender earnings gap
KW  - application behavior
KW  - job search
        ER  -