This project, structured in three parts, analyzes key determinants of persistent gender inequalities in the French labor market. The first two parts focus on the role of parenthood in explaining remaining gender gaps in earnings. The first part critically assesses standard methodologies for estimating child penalties and re-estimates child penalties in France, accounting for heterogeneity by age at childbirth. The second part examines the link between pre-birth relative income within couples and subsequent child penalties. The final part explores another major driver of gender inequality, monopsony power of firms over workers: it documents the co-evolution of firms’ market power and gender pay gaps, and exploits exogenous variation in market power to identify its causal effect on gender wage inequality.
Parenthood, Intra-Couple Inequality, and Monopsony Power : Understanding Persistent Gender Inequalities in the labor Market
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