What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kuhn, Peter; Shen, Kailing
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Australian National University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20211127
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1013-1048
• 关键词: regression-discontinuity; field experiments; GENDER; search; IMPACT

摘要

When employers'explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of callbacks to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 61 (146) percent. The removal worked in this sense because it generated a large increase in gender-mismatched applications, and because those applications were treated surprisingly well by employers, suggesting that employ-ers' gender requests often represented relatively weak preferences or outdated stereotypes. The job titles that were integrated by the ban, however, were not the most gendered ones, and were disproportion-ately lower-wage jobs. (JEL J16, J23, J41, J63, J71, M51, P31)