FAIR Seminar Daphne Skandalis
We invite you to a FAIR Seminar with Daphné Skandalis. Daphné is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her research is in labour economics and applied econometrics.
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Title: Motherhood and the Cost of Job Search
Abstract: After losing their job, mothers have a 8.9% lower job finding rate than similar women with no children in France. To understand why, we analyze the job applications sent on a popular online platform for 350,000 involuntarily unemployed workers. We highlight that mothers send 12.2% fewer job applications than other women and are more selective regarding both wages and non-wage amenities. Moreover, mothers differ in the timing of their applications: unlike other women, their rate of applications decreases by 20% in the hours and days when there is no school. We also find that a reform that introduced school on Wednesday in France increased mothers’ applications
and narrowed their gap in search timing with other women. Finally, we interpret our empirical findings in the lenses of a simple search model: beyond their higher opportunity cost of market work, mothers also experience higher search costs. This novel channel explains about one fifth of unemployed mothers’ lower job finding rate.