The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?
利用丹麦失业保险领取者的求职申请数据，研究发现男性和女性在申请工作类型上存在显著差异，这些差异能解释超过70%的性别工资差距。
Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide evidence on gender differences in applied-for jobs for the broader labor market. Across a range of job characteristics, we find large gender gaps in the share of applications going to different job types even among observationally similar men and women. In a standard decomposition, gender differences in applications can explain more than 70 percent of the residual gender wage gap.