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SUMMARY:phd seminar - Kenza Elass*\, Matteo Sestito**
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DESCRIPTION:*Recent explanations of the gender wage gap emphasize the role 
 of gender differences in psychological traits. Nevertheless\, there have be
 en only a limited number of studies confirming the relevance of these facto
 rs for labour market outcomes. This paper assesses the role of gender-speci
 fic preferences in the reservation wage gap during the job search. I use Fr
 ench administrative data from the unemployment insurance agency providing i
 nformation on job search behaviour and previous outcomes to assess to which
  kind of occupations men and women apply to and the gap in their reservatio
 n wages. Employing text analysis\, I build a novel dataset classifying occu
 pations with respect to a number of characteristics and examine to which ex
 tent men and women differ in the occupation they are looking for. I documen
 t widespread gender differences in the occupation characteristics targeted 
 by job seekers. Quantile decomposition methods allow me to document an uneq
 ual gap in reservation wage\, intensifying along the distribution. After ad
 justing for occupation characteristics reflecting gender-biased preferences
  and household constraints\, the unexplained part of the reservation wage g
 ap is decreased by half. Investigating unemployment history and outcomes fr
 om previous interviews with firms\, I do not find evidence of a female risk
  aversion to previous unemployment shocks or male overconfidence.**The unev
 en emergence of states and political hierarchies across the globe is often 
 invoked as one of the major causes of current wealth disparities. This pape
 r explores the determinants of state-building in the pre-industrial era fro
 m a new angle: the heterogeneity of crop cycles and the related dispersion 
 of the economic activity. The spatial and temporal concentration of farmin
 g was a necessary condition to sustain regular levels of taxation. When cr
 op cycles are too heterogeneous\, for central authorities is extremely diff
 icult to measure\, account and eventually appropriate local resources. TheÂ
  paper provides strong empirical evidence for this claim\, highlighting a n
 ew\, relatively neglected\, agro-ecological constraint on state formation.
 \\n\\nContact: Kenza Elass : kenza.elass[at]univ-amu.frCamille Hainnaux : c
 amille.hainnaux[at]univ-amu.frDaniela Horta Saenz : daniela.horta-saenz[at]
 univ-amu.frJade Ponsard : jade.ponsard[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'information
 s: https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/kenza-elass-matteo-sestit
 o
LOCATION:ÃŽlot Bernard du Bois - Salle 21\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevard Maur
 ice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/kenza-elass-matteo-sestito
CONTACT:Kenza Elass : kenza.elass[at]univ-amu.frCamille Hainnaux : camille.
 hainnaux[at]univ-amu.frDaniela Horta Saenz : daniela.horta-saenz[at]univ-am
 u.frJade Ponsard : jade.ponsard[at]univ-amu.fr
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