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

  • Belinda Archibong
  • Peter Blair Henry
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 114, May 2024
(pp. 196–200)
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Abstract

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document (i) gender differences in salary offers for jobs and (ii) the response of (i) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female offer lower starting salaries than jobs in industries where applicants skews male. During Nigeria's 2016 recession, applications to jobs in industries that skew female fell, and salary offers rose. In contrast, applications to jobs in industries that skew male rose, and salary offers fell. In accordance with this relative shift in applications, in 2016 the salary-offer gap almost disappears.

Citation

Archibong, Belinda, and Peter Blair Henry. 2024. "Shocking Offers: Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 114: 196–200. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241126

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JEL Classification

  • E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
  • J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
  • J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
  • J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
  • O11 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
  • O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration