TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hirsch, Boris
AU  - Schnabel, Claus
        TI  - Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender
        PY  - 2010/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5154
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5154
        AB  - Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and workplace characteristics and unobserved plant heterogeneity. These differences vanish once we allow these characteristics to affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men.
        KW  - job separations
KW  - gender
KW  - gender pay gap
KW  - Germany
        ER  -