American Economic Review Vol. 91 No. 2 2001
Gender Differences in the Labor Market Effects of the Dollar
Abstract
A study finds that women, like men, experience most of the expected wage response to dollar fluctuations at times of job transitions, rather than when they remain with the same employer. In this context, dollar-depreciation periods, which are generally viewed as providing positive labor demand shocks, reduce the penalties that often are associated with a job change. Since women have higher job-changing rates than their male counterparts, these findings suggest that the average female worker has more sensitive wages than her male counterpart. Within the population there is diversity in these effects, with the least-educated women having both the highest job-transition rates and the largest response to exchange rates at these transitions.
- DOI
- 10.1257/aer.91.2.400
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 400-405
- Language
- en
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref openalex