Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: He, Haoran; Li, Sherry Xin; Han, Yuling
• 署名单位: Beijing Normal University; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/719966
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: field experiment; age-discrimination; GENDER; fertility; job; callbacks; sex

摘要

China shifted its controversial one-child policy (1979-2015) to a two-child policy in 2016. We take advantage of this unexpected policy change and the heterogeneities in the prechange environment to investigate labor market discrimination against expected family responsibilities. In a two-wave correspondence study before and after the policy change, we sent 8,848 fictitious resumes with ages 22-29 in response to online job advertisements. Their gender and only-child/siblinged status were systematically varied. We find that women-but not men-are subject to labor market discrimination for expected family responsibilities. This discrimination worsens with the increase in women's reproductive age.