Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Archive
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Subscribers
    • Institutions
    • Advertisers
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Editorial Board
  • More
    • Feedback
    • Request JHR at your library
  • Other Publications
    • UWP

User menu

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in

Search

  • Advanced search
Journal of Human Resources
  • Other Publications
    • UWP
  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
Journal of Human Resources

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Archive
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Subscribers
    • Institutions
    • Advertisers
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Editorial Board
  • More
    • Feedback
    • Request JHR at your library
  • Follow uwp on Twitter
Research ArticleArticles
Open Access

Gender Differences within the Firm: Evidence from Two Million Travelers

Javier D. Donna and Gregory F. Veramendi
Published online before print November 18, 2020, 0818-9664R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.2.0818-9664R2
Javier D. Donna
Javier D. Donna Department of Economics University of Florida P.O. Box 117140 Gainesville, FL 32611-7140 Phone: 352-392-0151 Email:
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Gregory F. Veramendi
Gregory F. Veramendi Department of Economics University of Munich (LMU) Ludwigstr. 33/III 80539 Munich Germany Phone: +49 89 21806291 Email:
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: [email protected]
  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF
Loading

Abstract

We document gender differences in the price paid for work-related air travel among similar workers within a firm. We show that women pay consistently less per ticket than men, after accounting for a large set of covariates that include the characteristics of the trips, the employers, and the employees. A large proportion of the lower fares paid by women is explained by women booking flights earlier than men. We investigate potential mechanisms that could explain the observed gender differences. We find that gender differences increase with age, but we find no deviation from this trend during the childbearing years. We also find significant variation in gender differences across the regions of the world. Using country-level data on preference differences, we report that positive and negative reciprocity are factors associated with the documented gender differences, although this result is only suggestive. The documented gender differences have important monetary implications for firms and suggest a potentially important role for workers’ morale within a firm.

JEL Codes
  • D91
  • J16
  • F00
  • L93
  • M50
Keywords
  • Gender differences
  • worker gender differences
  • airline industry
  • © 2020 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

This open access article is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY- NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) and is freely available online at: http://jhr.uwpress.org

PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

Journal of Human Resources: 58 (1)
Journal of Human Resources
Vol. 58, Issue 1
1 Jan 2023
  • Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents (PDF)
  • Index by author
  • Back Matter (PDF)
  • Front Matter (PDF)
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Journal of Human Resources.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Gender Differences within the Firm: Evidence from Two Million Travelers
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Journal of Human Resources
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Journal of Human Resources web site.
Citation Tools
Gender Differences within the Firm: Evidence from Two Million Travelers
Javier D. Donna, Gregory F. Veramendi
Journal of Human Resources Nov 2020, 0818-9664R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.58.2.0818-9664R2

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Share
Gender Differences within the Firm: Evidence from Two Million Travelers
Javier D. Donna, Gregory F. Veramendi
Journal of Human Resources Nov 2020, 0818-9664R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.58.2.0818-9664R2
Digg logo Reddit logo Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One
Bookmark this article

Jump to section

  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • No citing articles found.
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • Free Movement of Workers and Native Demand for Tertiary Education
  • A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight
  • The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon
Show more Articles

Similar Articles

Keywords

  • D91
  • J16
  • F00
  • L93
  • M50
  • Gender differences
  • worker gender differences
  • airline industry
UWP

© 2023 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

Powered by HighWire