Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316927 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11813
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
This paper examines how gender-specific application behaviour, firms' hiring practices, and flexibility demands relate to the gender earnings gap, using linked data from the German Job Vacancy Survey and administrative records. Women are less likely than men to apply to high-wage firms with high flexibility requirements, although their hiring chances are similar when they do. We show that compensating differentials for firms' flexibility demands help explain the residual gender earnings gap. Among women, mothers experience the largest earnings penalties relative to men in jobs with high flexibility requirements.
Subjects: 
job search
application behaviour
gender earnings gap.
JEL: 
E24
J16
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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