经济与社会研究院SEMINAR第104期

题目：Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China

主讲人：沈凯玲，澳大利亚国立大学

时间：2018年9月29日13:30-15:00

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106室

主讲人简介：

沈凯玲，澳大利亚国立大学经济研究所高级讲师，德国劳动经济研究所研究员，对外经济贸易大学经济信息管理系本科毕业，加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学经济系博士毕业。1995年-1998年任职于外经贸部中国国际经济技术交流中心，2006年-2015年任职于厦门大学王亚南经济研究院。沈凯玲老师的研究以使用大数据研究劳动力市场为特色，以劳动经济学、应用微观以及中国劳动力市场为主。研究成果发表于Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Frontiers of Economics in China以及Research in Labor Economics。

Abstract:

Explicit requests for applicants of a specific gender are widely used in emerging-economy labor markets.  The extent to which these requests affect the allocation of workers to jobs depends on two factors:  how much workers comply with firms’ requests in their application decisions, and how much firms enforce their own requests when they encounter gender-mismatched applicants.  Using internal data from a Chinese job board, we show that both compliance and enforcement are substantial, but compliance accounts for the vast majority of the gender segregation and gender wage gap associated with employers’ explicit gender requests.  Ad-level regressions using job title and firm fixed effects suggest that employers’ explicit gender requests have causal effects on where workers direct their applications.  Application-level regressions using job title and worker fixed effects suggest that gender labels predict how employers will treat identically-qualified applicants when they apply for a job.