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Gender and Labor Attachment: Do Within‐Firms’ Relative Wages Matter?
Author(s) -
Galizzi Monica
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.00227
Subject(s) - wage , equity (law) , labour economics , economics , gender equity , demographic economics , political science , law
This article addresses the issue of gender differences in labor attachment by testing for the role of intrafirm wage comparison. It makes use of a measure of firms’ relative wages. The results indicate that once the forward‐looking behavior of workers is taken into account, women are actually more attached employees than men. Women’s attachment is also more affected by equity considerations. The analysis makes use of a dataset on short‐tenure Italian workers.