iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Daphné Skandalis

@daphneskandalis.bsky.social

1.1K followers 290 following 9 posts

Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Copenhagen, previously researcher at the New York Fed. Labor, social policy, inequality.

Posts Replies Media

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

What an honor! Many thanks for the kind words, Michael!

020

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Overall, our results suggest mothers have lower incentives & higher costs of job search. As mothers search less, they progress slower on the labor market—which contributes to the child penalty. This & more in our new WP with @arnaudphilippe.bsky.social ! (6/6) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/opulo...

160

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

But reallocation comes at a cost… We show mothers prefer to search at normal times: when a reform introduced school on Wednesday in France in 2014 (yes, we had no school on Wednesday!), they reacted by smoothing their search across days. Smoothing seems to rise applications’ success rate. (5/6)

140

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

We analyze motherhood gaps in applications sent every 10 minutes of the day... Mothers systematically reallocate their search activities from times when children are home to school time! (4/6)

131

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

We find large motherhood gaps in job search: ➡️ Mothers send 12% fewer applications than similar women with no kids ➡️ Mothers search for jobs with better wage & non-wage amenities ➡️ Mothers stay unemployed longer We find no fatherhood gaps. (3/6)

142

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

We analyze online job applications linked w/ admin data for 350K French workers who lost their job involuntarily. Key novelty: we see the exact time when applications are sent! We compare mothers (fathers) to women (men) without kids who had similar profiles until job loss. (2/6)

100

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

"Child penalties" have many causes. A challenge is to detect some that policies can affect. Our new paper studies the role of job search frictions: not only may mothers want to work less/in distinct jobs, they may also struggle more to get their preferred work arrangement. (1/6)

1245

Reposted by Daphné Skandalis

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 21/11/2023

When a minimum wage increases: "Racial inequality decreases because firms disproportionately reduce callbacks to lower-quality white applicants who benefited from discrimination under lower minimum wages." research.upjohn.org/up_workingpa...

717071

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Unfortunately I don’t know about a French motivation letters dataset! But that sounds cool, I wish I did!

010

Daphné Skandalis @daphneskandalis.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

There is growing evidence that women have more pro-social behavior. Even beyond the objective of understanding gender inequality, there might be a lot to learn about how to promote social welfare!

040