Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap

Lochner B, Merkl C (2025)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2025

Journal

The Economic Journal Wiley-Blackwell

DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaf037

Abstract

This paper examines how gender-specific application behaviour, firms’ hiring practices, and flexibility demands relate to the gender earnings gap, using linked data from the German Job Vacancy Survey and administrative records. Women are less likely than men to apply to high-wage firms with high flexibility requirements, although their hiring chances are similar when they do. We show that compensating differentials for firms’ flexibility demands help explain the residual gender earnings gap. Among women, mothers experience the largest earnings penalties relative to men in jobs with high flexibility requirements.

Authors with CRIS profile

Benjamin Lochner Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Makroökonomik Christian Merkl Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Makroökonomik

How to cite

APA:

Lochner, B., & Merkl, C. (2025). Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap. The Economic Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf037

MLA:

Lochner, Benjamin, and Christian Merkl. "Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap." The Economic Journal (2025).

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