Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245669 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14618
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (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. The removal had little or no effect on aggregate matching frictions. The job titles that were integrated however, were not the most gendered ones, and were disproportionately lower-wage jobs.
Subjects: 
gender
recruiting
job search
gender segregation
discrimination
JEL: 
J16
J63
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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