Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to ‘climb the job ladder.’ However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. Focusing on a subsample of younger, university-educated workers from an Australian longitudinal survey, we find strong evidence that the dynamic...

International trade exposure affects job creation and destruction along the intensive margin (job flows due to expansions and contractions of firms’ employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of firms). This paper uses 1992-2010 yearly employment data from the universe of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both the industry and commuting-zon...

Sex, Race, and Job Satisfaction among Highly Educated Workers* There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the 2010 National Survey of College Gradu...

Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidence from Count Data Models The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined between 1974 and 1994. Using coun...

Panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey are used to examine the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of spouses and adolescent children. Estimates from fixed effects models show that the mental health of women (but not men) declines following a spouse’s job loss, but only if that job loss results in a sustained period of non-employment or if ...

We specify a model of labour supply with job offer restrictions. A job offer is defined by a wage rate and working hours. The number of job offers is restricted, and follows a Poisson distribution. Individuals choose the alternative with the highest utility level. Three specifications are estimated: a basic specification, a specification in which the number of job offers depends on characterist...

Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004 This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product quality. While th...

This paper studies the duration of new job matches in east and west Germany using data from the German Socio-economic Panel. Non-parametric estimates of the survival probability show that, except for the first years of the east German transition process, job matches are less stable in east Germany. Results from a proportional hazards model that controls for important covariates imply that the t...