When:
Thursday, October 27, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: Kellogg Global Hub, 3301, 2211 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Mariya Acherkan
Group: Department of Economics: HELP Workshop
Category: Academic
Siddhant Agarwal: Workhour Regularity and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Brazilian Exporters
Abstract: Following Goldin (AER, 2014), I conjecture that women have a higher preference for the amenity of workhour regularity (due to the gendered division of labour at home, childcare, and safety concerns), and this explains a significant part of the gender gaps we see in employment, promotions, and wages. Using a panel of employer-employee matched data from Brazil, I empirically test the importance of this factor by exploiting variation in the time zones of the trading partners of exporting firms. I find that firms that trade with further away clients employ fewer female employees. Since exporting firms also pay a significant premium over domestic firms, this helps explain a large portion of the gender wage gap.