Gender differences in sorting on wages and risk

Lavetti, Kurt; Schmutte, Ian M.

doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2022.06.012

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“…Men also have easier access to support from mentors and colleagues, as well as more opportunities for development, which helps them succeed in their careers [6]. What's more, the hypothesis that women may not be paid equally for taking riskier jobs has been hinted at in much of the previous literature on gender differences in wage differentials related to compensation for workplace injuries [7]. Therefore, the differences in profession may also generate a gender wage gap.…”

Section: Differences In Educational Levels and Professionsmentioning

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The Study of the Gender Wage Gap

Cai

2023

HBEM

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The gender wage gap is a prevalent phenomenon in the world, which exuberates inequality and discrimination. This article is a qualitative study that mainly discusses the gender wage gap by analyzing the causes of some prevention to alleviate the gender wage gap. The purpose of this article is to figure out the influencing factors of the gender wage gap and carry out some possible preventions of the gender wage gap getting bigger. According to previous researches, gender discrimination can be roughly defined as the basis of the gender wage gap, and the social background of patriarchy is the other original factor that leads to the gender wage gap. In other words, the gender wage gap is the microcosm of gender discrimination and it implies the present social problems.

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Section: Differences In Educational Levels and Professionsmentioning

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The Study of the Gender Wage Gap

Cai

2023

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“…Despite gender differences in the labor market, with women on average having lower wages, fewer opportunities for advancement and for career development, poorer working conditions, more workplace discrimination, and fewer benefits than men [32,[35][36][37], women have been found to be more satisfied with their jobs than men [32,35,36], a phenomenon referred to as "the gender job satisfaction paradox" [32,33]. However, recent research has shown that job satisfaction among working women has declined in some countries [38] and that differences in job satisfaction between women and men vary according to other variables such as ethnicity or country [35,39].…”

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Job Satisfaction, Mental Symptoms, and Well-Being in Adult Workers: A Gender Analysis

Matud,

Sánchez-Tovar,

Hernández-Lorenzo

et al. 2024

Psychiatry International

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Although studies have found that job satisfaction has an impact on workers’ physical and mental health, research has generally not focused on the psychological well-being of adult workers and a gender differential analysis has not been conducted. The aim of the current research is to determine the importance of job satisfaction for mental symptoms and well-being among adult working women and men. We also examine gender differences in job satisfaction. A non-probability sample of 1977 Spanish workers (51.6% men and 48.4% women) aged between 36 and 65 years was used in this cross-sectional study. Six questionnaires and self-report scales were used to assess the participants. For both men and women, higher job satisfaction was associated with lower depressive, somatic, anxiety, and social dysfunction symptoms; higher life satisfaction; and greater psychological well-being. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that after controlling for the effects of self-esteem and social support, higher job satisfaction predicted greater life satisfaction, fewer mental symptoms, and greater psychological well-being, although the effect of job satisfaction on psychological well-being was somewhat stronger for men than for women. We conclude that job satisfaction is important for the mental health, psychological well-being, and life satisfaction of adult working women and men.

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“…Economists are increasingly recognizing the role of work conditions in characterizing gender differences in the labor market. This strand of research has focused on time-space flexibility (e.g., Mas and Pallais 2017, Wiswall and Zafar 2017, Adams-Prassl 2020), commuting distance (Petrongolo andRonchi 2020, Le Barbanchon et al 2021), competitiveness (Niederle and Vesterlund 2007, Reuben et al 2019, Samek 2019, sexual harassment (Folke and Rickne 2022), and workplace safety (Lavetti andSchmutte 2021, Morchio andMoser 2021). We focus on a work attribute that has been relatively under-examined in economics despite its importance to individuals' overall well-being (Karlsson et al 2004, Cassar and Meier 2018, Nikolova and Cnossen 2020 and its implications for organizational productivity (Gartenberg et al 2019).…”

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The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work

Burbano,

Folke,

Meier

et al. 2024

Management Science

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An understanding of differences in nonmonetary work conditions is fundamental for a complete characterization of individuals’ well-being at work. Thus, to fully characterize gender inequalities in the labor market, scholars have begun to explore gender differences in nonmonetary work conditions. We examine one such condition—meaningful work—using nationally representative survey data linked with worker and employer administrative data. We document a large and expanding gender gap in meaningful work, wherein women experience their jobs as more meaningful than men do. We then explore patterns underlying this difference. We find little correlation between women’s higher experience of meaningful work and either labor market decisions related to first parenthood or women’s underrepresentation in leadership jobs. Instead, the gender gap appears to be highly correlated with the sorting of more women into occupations with a high level of beneficence: the sense of having a prosocial impact. Though both women and men experience such jobs as more meaningful, women do so by a larger margin. Next, we consider the relationship between the gender difference in meaningful work and the gender wage gap, contributing to the discussion on compensating differentials in work amenities. We find that, whereas the gender gap in meaningful work closes a substantial part of the wage gap in lower paid jobs, it does little to close the gap in higher paid jobs in which the gender wage gap is largest. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, behavioral economics and decision analysis. Funding: J. Rickne received financial support from the Wallenberg Academy Fellow Grant, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare 2019-01251. O. Folke received financial support from the Swedish Research Council 2018-00703_VR, The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare 2019-01251. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.01807 .

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Gender differences in sorting on wages and risk

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

The Study of the Gender Wage Gap

The Study of the Gender Wage Gap

Job Satisfaction, Mental Symptoms, and Well-Being in Adult Workers: A Gender Analysis

The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work

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