this week's reading theme is labour market & gender
We find that gender-neutral financial incentives increased the share of male General Practice (GP) residents by 30% in Catalonia, Spain. Exploiting a salary supplement policy for GP residents and a synthetic difference-in-differences design, we estimate an increase of 8.3 percentage points, with effects concentrated in areas receiving larger wage increases. We also document suggestive evidence of lower GP vacancy rates in treated regions after the policy, although this pattern cannot be interpreted causally. To our knowledge, these results provide the first causal evidence that gender-neutral financial incentives can attract men into a highly feminized occupation. [link]
Young adults who lived in a same-sex family earn just as much, are equally employed, and have equal probability of being full-time employed as young adults from different-sex families. Moreover, especially young adults raised by same-sex parents from birth more often choose industries dominated by the opposite sex. Nonetheless, such choices are not reflected in earnings differentials. These findings suggest that children of same-sex parents do well on the labor market, and are less inclined to follow traditional gender norms when choosing occupations. [link]
