Gender as an impediment to labor market success: Why do young women report greater harm?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Antecol, H; Kuhn, P
• 署名单位: Illinois State University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209974
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 702-728
• 关键词: sex-discrimination; statistical evidence; workers

摘要

Compared to older women, young female job seekers are more than three times as likely to report chat their ability to find a good new job is compromised by their gender. This phenomenon cannot be statistically attributed to observed personal or job characteristics, or to any objective measure of discrimination. Further, women's reports of gender-induced advantage, and men's reports of gender-induced harm, are also more prevalent among the young. A possible interpretation of all these patterns is that young people are more likely to interpret a given departure from gender-neutral treatment as causally affected by their gender.