Data and Code for: What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Peter Kuhn, University of California-Santa Barbara; Kailing Shen, Australian National University

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Project Citation:

Kuhn, Peter, and Shen, Kailing. Data and Code for: What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-03-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E183021V1

Project Description

Summary: 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 61 (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well by employers, suggesting that employers’ gender requests often represented relatively weak preferences or outdated stereotypes. The job titles that were integrated by the ban, however, were not the most gendered ones, and were disproportionately lower-wage jobs.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: gender; recruiting; discrimination; job search; segregation

JEL Classification:
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J63 Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
      J71 Labor Discrimination

Geographic Coverage: China

Time Period(s): 1/1/2018 – 10/25/2019

Collection Date(s): 3/1/2019 – 10/25/2019 (The data was extracted three times: March, April and October of 2019)

Universe: Job applications and call-backs on www.xmrc.com.cn

Data Type(s): event/transaction data

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