| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP16619 |
| DP16619 Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity | |
| David Card; Fabrizio Colella; Rafael Lalive | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-10-07 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In spring 2005, Austria launched a campaign to inform employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job advertisements were illegal. At the time over 40% of openings on the nation’s largest job-board specified a preferred gender. Over the next year the fraction fell to under 5%. We merge data on filled vacancies to linked employer-employee data to study how the elimination of gender preferences affected hiring and job outcomes. Prior to the campaign, most stated preferences were concordant with the firm’s existing gender composition, but a minority targeted the opposite gender - a subset we call non-stereotypical vacancies. Vacancies with a gender preference were very likely (>90%) to be filled by someone of that gender. We use pre-campaign vacancies to predict the probabilities of specifying preferences for females, males, or neither gender. We then conduct event studies of the effect of the campaign on the predicted groups. We find that the elimination of gender preferences led to a rise in the fraction of women hired for jobs likely to be targeted to men (and vice versa), increasing the diversity of hiring workplaces. Partially offsetting this effect, we find a reduction in the success of non-stereotypical vacancies in hiring the targeted gender, and indications of a decline in the efficiency of matching. For the much larger set of stereotypical vacancies, however, vacancy filling times, wages, and job durations were largely unaffected by the campaign, suggesting that the elimination of stated preferences had at most small consequences on overall job match efficiency. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Gender preference Workplace gender segregation Anti-discrimination policy |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16619 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545563 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Card,Fabrizio Colella,Rafael Lalive. DP16619 Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity. 2021. |
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