Addendum: Gender discrimination and intergenerational transmission of preferences

The paper ‘Gender discrimination and intergenerationaltransmission of preferences’ was published in Oxford     

Gender discrimination and intergenerational transmission of preferences

This paper provides an explanation for the existence of genderdiscrimination in the labour market focusing on the intergenerationaltransmission of preferences related to the attitude of womentowards jobs and family. Changes in women's preferences overgenerations depend on the socialization efforts of their parentswhich in turn are influenced by both the firm's expected recruitmentpolicy and the expected utility from household care. We obtaintwo types of steady state equilibria: the discriminatory equilibrium,in which women are segregated to low-paid jobs, and the non-discriminatoryequilibrium, in which women are hired in highly-paid jobs. Theconditions of convergence to each equilibrium are analysed.