What an honor! Many thanks for the kind words, Michael!
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What an honor! Many thanks for the kind words, Michael!
Overall, our results suggest mothers have lower incentives & higher costs of job search.
As mothers search less, they progress slower on the labor market—which contributes to the child penalty.
This & more in our new WP with @arnaudphilippe.bsky.social
! (6/6)
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/opulo...
But reallocation comes at a cost…
We show mothers prefer to search at normal times: when a reform introduced school on Wednesday in France in 2014 (yes, we had no school on Wednesday!), they reacted by smoothing their search across days.
Smoothing seems to rise applications’ success rate. (5/6)
We analyze motherhood gaps in applications sent every 10 minutes of the day...
Mothers systematically reallocate their search activities from times when children are home to school time! (4/6)
We find large motherhood gaps in job search:
➡️ Mothers send 12% fewer applications than similar women with no kids
➡️ Mothers search for jobs with better wage & non-wage amenities
➡️ Mothers stay unemployed longer
We find no fatherhood gaps. (3/6)
We analyze online job applications linked w/ admin data for 350K French workers who lost their job involuntarily.
Key novelty: we see the exact time when applications are sent!
We compare mothers (fathers) to women (men) without kids who had similar profiles until job loss. (2/6)
"Child penalties" have many causes. A challenge is to detect some that policies can affect.
Our new paper studies the role of job search frictions: not only may mothers want to work less/in distinct jobs, they may also struggle more to get their preferred work arrangement. (1/6)
When a minimum wage increases: "Racial inequality decreases because firms disproportionately reduce callbacks to lower-quality white applicants who benefited from discrimination under lower minimum wages."
research.upjohn.org/up_workingpa...
Unfortunately I don’t know about a French motivation letters dataset! But that sounds cool, I wish I did!
There is growing evidence that women have more pro-social behavior. Even beyond the objective of understanding gender inequality, there might be a lot to learn about how to promote social welfare!