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Gender Gaps in Benefits Coverage

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Janet Currie

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This paper explores the extent to which there are gender gaps in the provision of 4 common non-wage benefits offered by employers: pensions, health insurance, sick leaves, and disability plans. I find that there are gender differences in whether or not benefits are offered, which remain statistically significant when observable characteristics such as age, education, marital status and number of children are controlled for. Women are less likely to be offered pensions, health coverage, and disability. However, they are 10% more likely to have paid sick leave. When the wage is controlled for, differences in offered pensions and health insurance disappear, which suggests that much of the difference in benefits coverage is associated with the fact that women work in low-wage jobs.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 4265.

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Date of creation: Jan 1993
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Publication status: published as Chapter 23 in The Handbook of Human Resource Management, JAI Press, 1997. Eds. David Lewin, Daniel Mitchell, and Mahmood Zaidi.
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J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Private Pensions
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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  1. James E. Pesando & Morley Gunderson & John McLaren, 1991. "Pension Benefits and Male-Female Wage Differentials," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 24(3), pages 536-50, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Robert S. Smith & Ronald G. Ehrenberg, 1981. "Estimating Wage-Fringe Trade-Offs: Some Data Problems," NBER Working Papers 0827, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Smith, James P & Ward, Michael, 1989. "Women in the Labor Market and in the Family," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 3(1), pages 9-23, Winter. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Brown, Charles, 1980. "Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 94(1), pages 113-34, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Charles Brown, 1980. "Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market," NBER Reprints 0103, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Even, William E & Macpherson, David A, 1990. "The Gender Gap in Pensions and Wages," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 72(2), pages 259-65, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Edward P. Lazear & Sherwin Rosen, 1984. "Pension Inequality," NBER Working Papers 1477, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Granqvist, Lena & Selén, Jan & Ståhlberg, Ann-Charlotte, 2002. "Mandatory Earnings-Related Insurance Rights, Human Capital and the Gender Earnings Gap in Sweden," Working Paper Series 179, Trade Union Institute for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  2. Janet Currie & Aaron S. Yelowitz, 1999. "Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers," JCPR Working Papers 63, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. [Downloadable!]
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