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Data for Gender differences in job search : trading off commute against wage Thomas Le Barbanchon (6994307) Roland Rathelot (24872269) Alexandra Roulet (24885331) Women -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Women -- Employment -- France Job hunting -- France Women -- Time management Commuters -- France Commuting -- France Wages -- Women -- 21st century Wage differentials -- France Migrated from ePrints We relate gender differences in willingness to commute to the gender wage gap. Using French administrative data on job search criteria, we first document that unemployed women have a lower reservation wage and a shorter maximum acceptable commute than their male counterparts. We then identify indifference curves between wage and commute using the joint distributions of reservation job attributes and of accepted job bundles. Indifference curves are steeper for women, who value commute around 20% more than men. Controlling in particular for the previous job, newly hired women are paid after unemployment 4% less per hour and have a 12% shorter commute than men. Through the lens of a job search model where commuting matters, we estimate that gender differences in commute valuation can account for a 0.5 log point hourly wage deficit for women, i.e., 14 percent of the residualized gender wage gap. Finally, we use job application data to test the robustness of our results and to show that female workers do not receive less demand from far-away employers, confirming that most of the gender gap in commute is supply-side driven.<br><br>Data record consists of replication data files in STATA and R syntax, accompanied by an explanatory readme file. The programs replicate tables and figures from "Gender Differences in Job Search: Trading off Commute against Wage", by Le Barbanchon, Rathelot, and Roulet. Please see the 00_README_LBRR file for additional details. 2026-09-15T19:57:18Z Dataset Dataset 10.82444/warw.33820675.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Gender_differences_in_job_search_trading_off_commute_against_wage/33820675 CC BY 4.0