Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227697 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
JRC Digital Economy Working Paper No. 2019-01
Publisher: 
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Seville
Abstract: 
We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets. We provide empirical evidence for a statistically significant 4% gender wage gap among workers. We also find that female workers propose lower wage bills and are more likely to win the competition for contracts. Once we include workers' wage bill proposals in the regressions, the gender wage gap virtually disappears, i.e., it is statistically insignificant and very small in magnitude (0.3%). Our results also suggest that female workers' higher winning probabilities associated with lower wage bill proposals lead to higher expected revenues.
Subjects: 
Gender wage gap
online labor markets
digitally performable projects
JEL: 
D40
J40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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