TY  - SER
AU  -  Glenny, Anita M.
AU  -  Harmon, Nikolaj A.
AU  -  Maibom, Jonas
AU  - Fluchtmann, Jonas
TI  - The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?
SN  - 1945-7731
PB  - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
KW  -  Non-labor Discrimination, Wage Level and Structure
KW  -  Plant Closings, Labor Discrimination
KW  -  Severance Pay
KW  -  Wage Differentials, Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search, Unemployment Insurance
KW  - Economics
KW  - Economics of Gender
N2  - Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide evidence on gender differences in applied-for jobs for the broader labor market. Across a range of job characteristics, we find large gender gaps in the share of applications going to different job types even among observationally similar men and women. In a standard decomposition, gender differences in applications can explain more than 70 percent of the residual gender wage gap
UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20210607
ER  -