Gender Differences in the Labor Market Effects of the Dollar

14 Pages Posted: 9 Aug 2006

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Linda S. Goldberg

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Joseph S. Tracy

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Date Written: April 2001

Abstract

Although the dollar has been shown to influence the expected wages of workers, the analysis to date has focused on the male workforce. We show that exchange rate fluctuations also have important implications for women's wages. The dominant wage effects for women—like those for men—arise at times of job transition. Changes in the value of the dollar can cause the wage gap between women who change jobs and women who stay on in their jobs to expand or contract sharply, with the most pronounced effects occurring among the least educated women and women in highly competitive manufacturing industries. In addition, it appears that women who stay on in their jobs show greater wage sensitivity to currency movements than do their male counterparts.

Keywords: exchange rate, wage, job, women, gender

JEL Classification: F31, F3, F4, J30, E24

Suggested Citation

Goldberg, Linda S. and Tracy, Joseph, Gender Differences in the Labor Market Effects of the Dollar (April 2001). FRB of New York Staff Report No. 121, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=923425 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.923425

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