Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality on the Labor Market
Seminar
Speaker
Johanna Rickne
Date
03/06/2019 - 12:30 - 11:10Add To Calendar
2019-06-03 11:10:00
2019-06-03 12:30:00
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality on the Labor Market
Joint with Olle Folke.
We use uniquely detailed data for the Swedish labor market to study the relationship between sexual harassment and labor market inequality. Women are subject to more harassment from colleagues and managers in industries and occupations that are more male-dominated. Harassment also grows with the share of male employees in a workplace, conditional on occupation and education type. These patterns highlight sexual harassment as a workplace phenomenon that maintains occupational segregation. Since the same factors that predict sexual harassment also predict higher pay, this is suggestive evidence that sexual harassment is an important factor behind the gender pay gap.
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אוניברסיטת בר-אילן - Department of Economics
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Place
building 504, seminar room 011.
Affiliation
Stockholm University
Abstract
Joint with Olle Folke.
We use uniquely detailed data for the Swedish labor market to study the relationship between sexual harassment and labor market inequality. Women are subject to more harassment from colleagues and managers in industries and occupations that are more male-dominated. Harassment also grows with the share of male employees in a workplace, conditional on occupation and education type. These patterns highlight sexual harassment as a workplace phenomenon that maintains occupational segregation. Since the same factors that predict sexual harassment also predict higher pay, this is suggestive evidence that sexual harassment is an important factor behind the gender pay gap.
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