Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82618
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2008:10
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by differences in occupation and place of residence, and to a large extent is explained by differences in geographical search area. When we take into account differences in search area, the negative gender effect disappears. However, the results differ somewhat across subgroups: For highly skilled women a negative gender effect remains.
Subjects: 
Job Search
Gender Differences
Discrimination
JEL: 
J61
J71
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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