Calendrier du 24 novembre 2020
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 24/11/2020 de 17:00 à 18:15
FOSTER Andrew (Brown University)
Commencez ce que vous avez terminé ! Risque ex ante et investissements scolaires en présence de complémentarités dynamiques
écrit avec Esther Gehrke
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 24/11/2020 de 17:00 à 18:00
Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97117933045?pwd=VG5oY0RDaWJMbmtSY2o3Y2F5RkZxZz09
GRENIER Jean-Yves (EHESS)
Old Silk Roads and contemporary economic development: A Study through satellite data
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 24/11/2020 de 14:45 à 16:15
Using Zoom
GUADALUPE Maria (INSEAD)
The Perfect Match: Assortative Matching in Mergers and Acquisitions
écrit avec Veronica Rappoport, Bernard Salanié and Catherine Thomas
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 24/11/2020 de 12:30 à 13:30
via ZOOM
ROUSSILLE Nina (UC Berkeley)
The central role of the ask gap in gender pay inequality
The gender ask gap measures the extent to which women ask for lower salaries than comparable men. This paper studies the role of the ask gap in generating wage inequality using novel data from Hired.com, a leading online recruitment platform for full time engineering jobs in the United States. To use the platform, job candidates must post an ask salary, stating how much they want to make in their next job. Firms then apply to candidates by offering a bid salary they are willing to pay the candidate. If the candidate is hired, a final salary is recorded. After adjusting for resume characteristics, the ask gap is 3.3%, the bid gap is 2.4% and the gap in final offers is 1.8%. Remarkably, further controlling for the ask salary explains all of the gender gaps in bid and final salary on the platform. To estimate the market-level effects of an increase in women’s ask salary, I exploit a sudden change in how candidates were prompted to provide their ask salary. For a subset of candidates, in mid-2018, the answer box used to solicit the ask salary went from an empty field to a pre-filled entry with the median salary on the platform for a similar candidate. Comparing candidates creating a profile before and after the feature change, I find that this change drove the ask gap and the bid gap to zero. In addition, women received the same number of bids before and after the change, suggesting they face little penalty for demanding wages comparable to men.