Wednesday, 9/23/2020
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What Happens When
Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads? Evidence from a Chinese
Job Board
We study what happened when employers’ explicit gender
requests were unexpectedly removed overnight from a Chinese job board, on March
1, 2019. We show that the ban raised the share of women in the pool of
successful applicants to jobs that previously requested men (M jobs) by
63 percent, and raised men’s share in F jobs by 146 percent. The
main mechanism for both these effects was through application behavior--
conditional on applying, workers’ chances of success in gender-mismatched jobs
did not change much after the ban. We do not detect any negative,
unintended consequences of the ban for either firms or workers.
Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas e Empresariais (NIPE)
Escola de Economia e Gestão (EEG)
Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga
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