The Effect of Job Flexibility on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Estimates from a Search and Bargaining Model
By Luca Flabbi, Andrea Moro. Social Science Research Network, 2012
110 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This paper develops and estimates a search model of the labor market where jobs are characterized by wages and work-hours flexibility. Flexibility is valued by workers, and is costly to provide for employers. The model generates observed wage distributions directly related to the preference for flexibility parameters: the higher the preference for flexibility, the wider is the support of the wage distribution at flexible jobs and the larger is the discontinuity between the wage distribution at flexible and non-flexible jobs. Estimation results show that more than one third of women place positive value to flexibility, with women with a college degree valuing flexibility more than women with a high school degree. Counterfactual experiments show that flexibility has a substantial impact on the wage distribution but not on the unemployment rate. We comment on the implications of our approach for gender differentials in wages and schooling.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Francine D. Blau
- Lawrence M. Kahn
- Jessica Pan
- Luca Flabbi
- Patricia Cortés
- Da Ke
- William B. Peterman
- Stephan Klasen
In Gender Studies
- Francine D. Blau
- Lawrence M. Kahn
- William B. Peterman
- Stephan Klasen
- Claudia Goldin
- Janneke Pieters
- Esfandiar Maasoumi
- Le Wang
Citations in the corpus
- The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? (2018, unknown): “Indeed, there is abundant empirical evidence that women, particularly those with young children, place a higher value on flexibility at work and shorter work hours relative to men (Flabbi and Moro, 2012, Mas and Pallais, 2017 and Wiswall and Zafar, 2017).”
- Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family (2016, unknown): “, 2010 dollars).(26) The comparison of mean expected and realized earnings indicates that the two are remarkably similar: $73,500 versus $75,000.”
- The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “36 Flabbi and Moro (2012) build a search model in which women’s demand for flexibility leads to the kind of compensating differential Goldin (2014) discusses.”