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Do women ask for lower salaries? The supply side of the gender pay gap

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  • Martín González Rozada

    (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

  • Eduardo Levy Yeyati

    (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella/The Brookings Institution)

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We explore a new rich dataset of online asking prices from a large online job application platform in Argentina. We find that women, on average, ask for a significant 6% significant less than men, a gender ask gap that increases with the “level” of the position proxied, alternatively, by the seniority of the position and its average requested wage), virtually disappears for women in the 45-64 range, and is significantly smaller for female-dominated occupations, as measured by the female-to-male ratio.

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  • Martín González Rozada & Eduardo Levy Yeyati, 2021. "Do women ask for lower salaries? The supply side of the gender pay gap," Working Papers 72, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
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    JEL classification:

    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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