Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73392 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
BGPE Discussion Paper No. 6
Publisher: 
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
This paper investigates women's and men's labor supply to the firm within a structural approach based on a dynamic model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked employer-employee dataset for Germany, we find that labor supply elasticities are small (0.9 - 2.4) and that women's labor supply to the firm is substantially less elastic than men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit-maximizing monopsonistic employers.
Subjects: 
labor supply
monopsony
gender
discrimination
JEL: 
J42
J60
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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