Men, women and the hiring function

This paper examines the idea of ranking of groups and genders of unemployed labour force participants irt terms of their hiring probabilities. The fin d a clear ranking of men over women in the hiring process in Australia. We also find that amongst males, employed job seekers are ranked above those u nemployed and, in turn, above those not in the labour force. For women, the unemployed and employed are not found to be competing with each other, whi lst those not in the labour force are ranked below the unemployed.