Calendrier du 11 février 2020
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 11/02/2020 de 16:30 à 19:00
PSE, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris, Salle R1-09
GATHMANN Christina(LISER)
LUKSIC Juan()
Marginal Returns to Citizenship and Skill Development
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Du 11/02/2020 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
PAUL-VENTURINE Julia ()
Reducing the gender pay gap: can we trust firms to take action?
écrit avec Bartels, Charlotte (DIW Berlin); Bach, Stefan (DIW Berlin)
This paper analyzes the effect of the 09th of November 2010 law in France that implemented financial sanctions for firms of 50+ employees who will not have implemented an agreement or an action plan in favor of professional equality between men and women by January 1st, 2012. An important difference between this law and the ones studied previously in the literature is that it does not just state the interdiction of gender discrimination but it obliges firms to take action by decentralizing the negotiation on gender inequalities in the workplace at the firm level. To develop our analysis, I build on a unique administrative dataset, a combination of the ADEP database, registering firms that signed this type of agreement, matched with the DADS database that contains detailed information on workers and firms characteristics.
To identify the effects of the signature of an agreement on the wage gap, we exploit information on the timing of signature that differs between firms.
Results suggest that the agreements had an effect on large firms (500+ employees) that had both human and financial resources to implement and monitor the policies elaborated but not on medium-sized firms, which lacked those resources.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 11/02/2020 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
PAUL-VENTURINE Julia ()
Reducing the gender pay gap: can we trust firms to take action?
All around the world, one of the most common and persistent characteristics of labor markets is that women's earnings are lower than those of men. In France, women earn about 20% less than men and the cost of this discrimination against women is estimated to be substantial. Policies to decrease the gender pay gap are thus key but state intervention is often criticized as creating one-approach-for-all which is inappropriate for the specific difficulties faced by each sector and firm. In this context, France decided in November 2010 to decentralize the level of action by making mandatory for firms of more than 50 employees to negotiate agreements on professional equality between men and women. In this paper, I estimate the causal effect of the signature of such agreements on the wage gap and other measures of gender inequalities. Using a unique combination of administrative datasets, I exploit the staggered signature of agreements over the 2010-2013 period and find that the law had indeed an effect on the signature of those agreements but none on the gender wage gap or on any other measure of inequalities. Those results can be explained by several factors. First, the law made mandatory the signature of agreements but no obligation of results was put in place. Second, the labour inspectors would enforce only the signature of agreements but not their content. Hence, firms did sign agreements but without negotiating any constraining actions, leading to those null effects.