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

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  • Belinda Archibong
  • Peter Blair Henry

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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.

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  • Belinda Archibong & Peter Blair Henry, 2024. "Shocking Offers: Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 114, pages 196-200, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:114:y:2024:p:196-200
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241126
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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