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dc.contributor.authorKuhn, Peteren
dc.contributor.authorShen, Kailingen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-17-
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-28T13:52:31Z-
dc.date.available2011-06-28T13:52:31Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/45979-
dc.description.abstractWe study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms' underlying gender preferences from firms' propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill requirements should reduce the tendency to gender-target a job ad; this is strongly confirmed in our data. We also find that firms' underlying gender preferences are highly job-specific, with many firms requesting men for some jobs and women for others, and with one third of the variation in gender preferences within firm*occupation cells.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x5195en
dc.subject.jelJ71en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keyworddiscriminationen
dc.subject.keywordgenderen
dc.subject.keywordChinaen
dc.subject.keywordinterneten
dc.subject.keywordsearchen
dc.subject.stwPersonalbeschaffungen
dc.subject.stwInterneten
dc.subject.stwGeschlechterdiskriminierungen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsmarktdiskriminierungen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsnachfrageen
dc.subject.stwChinaen
dc.titleGender discrimination in Job ads: Theory and evidence-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn659024098en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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