Data and Code for: The Contribution of Employee-Led and Employer-Led Work Flexibility to the Motherhood Wage Gap

We analyze the contribution of job flexibility to the gender wage gap amongst Danish parents with a professional degree. We use a supervised machine learning approach to measure job flexibility from job vacancy text. We distinguish between employee-led and employer-led flexibility. We estimate pooled Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to analyze the contribution of occupation-level exposure to flexibility to gender wage gaps. We find that employee- and employer-led flexibility contribute in opposite directions to the unexplained component of the motherhood penalty in earnings and wages for those with a professional bachelors degree.

我们分析了工作灵活性对丹麦拥有专业学位的父母群体中性别工资差距的贡献。我们采用监督机器学习方法（supervised machine learning approach），从职位空缺文本中测量工作灵活性，并区分员工主导型与雇主主导型两类灵活性。我们通过混合Oaxaca-Blinder分解法（pooled Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions），分析职业层面的灵活性暴露对性别工资差距的影响。研究发现，对于拥有专业学士学位的群体而言，员工主导型与雇主主导型灵活性在母亲收入及工资惩罚的未解释部分中，发挥着方向相反的作用。