Shocking Offers : Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets

Belinda Archibong, Peter Blair Henry

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs, and (b) the response of (a) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female, offer lower starting salaries than jobs in industries where applicants skew male. During Nigeria's 2016 recession, overall job applications rose, but applications to jobs in industries that skew male increased more than applications to jobs in industries that skew female. Salary offers fell sharply for jobs in male-skewed industries compared to female-skewed industries. In accordance with this relative shift in applications, in 2016, the salary-offer gender gap almost disappeared

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Year of publication:	April 2024
Authors:	Archibong, Belinda ; Henry, Peter Blair
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (issuing body)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Arbeitsmarkt \| Labour market \| Geschlechterverteilung \| Sex ratio \| Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung \| Labour market discrimination \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Konjunktur \| Business cycle \| Digitale Plattform \| Digital platform \| Nigeria

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white)
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w32366
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w32366 [DOI]
Classification:	J16 - Economics of Gender ; J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; J71 - Discrimination ; J78 - Public Policy ; L86 - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software ; O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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