The Role of Firms in Gender Earnings Inequality: Evidence from the United States
研究发现美国男性比女性更可能在高薪企业和行业工作，主要原因是机会差异而非偏好差异，且女性所在企业非薪酬特征更好，这有助于解释性别收入差距。
This paper documents that in the US, men are more likely than women to work in both high-wage firms and high-wage industries. I then ask why this sorting occurs. I consider two main explanations: men and women have different preferences, and men and women have different opportunities. Through the lens of a simple random search model, I find that the dominant explanation for sorting is differences in opportunities. One implication of this result is that women are at firms that offer better nonpay characteristics, and this plays an important role in explaining the gender earnings gap.