Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46126 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5154
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
job separations
gender
gender pay gap
Germany
JEL: 
J62
J63
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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