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On gender gaps and self-fulfilling expectations: Theory, policies and some empirical evidence

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorDolado, Juan José
dc.contributor.authorRica, Sara de la
dc.contributor.authorGarcía-Peñalosa, Cecilia
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-26T12:29:19Z
dc.date.available2009-01-26T12:29:19Z
dc.date.issued2008-06
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers a simple model of self-fulfilling expectations that leads to a multiple equilibrium of gender gaps in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard problems related to unobservable effort, like in most of the related literature, our model fully relies on statistical discrimination. If firms believe that women will quit their jobs more often than equally productive men when shocks affecting household chores take place, our model predicts that this belief will increase the wage gap in favour of men which, in turn, will increase the female share of housework and exacerbate lower female participation in the labour market. Hence, both effects lead to a gendered equilibrium with large gaps, even though an ungendered equilibrium with no gaps is feasible. We examine the effects of gender-based and gender-neutral subsidies and find that the latter are more effective in removing the gendered equilibrium. Empirical analysis based on a time use survey for Spain is provided to test most of the implications of the model.
dc.description.sponsorshipBanco de Santander
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dc.identifier.issn1696-750X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10016/3458
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFEDEA
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDocumentos de trabajo
dc.relation.ispartofseries2008-24
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.fedea.es/pub/papers/2008/dt2008-24.pdf
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dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.jelJ16
dc.subject.jelJ71
dc.subject.otherGender wage gap
dc.subject.otherParticipation
dc.subject.otherMultiple equilibria
dc.titleOn gender gaps and self-fulfilling expectations: Theory, policies and some empirical evidence
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