Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining
By Luca Flabbi. Social Science Research Network, 2005
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Gender wage differentials, conditional on observed productivity characteristics, have been considered a possible indication of prejudice against women in the labor market. However, there is no conclusive evidence on whether these differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to solve the identification problem by developing a search model of the labor market with matching, bargaining and employer's taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women: prejudiced employers because of preference and unprejudiced employers because of spillover effects that worsen the bargaining position of women. Estimation is performed by maximum likelihood on Current Population Survey data for the year 1995. Results indicate that the productivity of women is 6.5\% lower than the productivity of men and that about half of the employers are prejudiced against women. Two policy experiments are implemented using the estimated parameters: an equal pay policy and an affirmative action polic
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science
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- The Effect of Job Flexibility on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Estimates from a Search and Bargaining Model (2012, methodology): “Models in this class have been used to study a variety of issues, such as duration to first job and returns to schooling (Eckstein and Wolpin, 1995), race discrimination (Eckstein and Wolpin, 1999), the impact of mandatory minimum wage (Flinn, 2006), and gender discrimination (Flabbi, 2010).”