We 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 …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …

-science and engineering fields as a comparison group. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that …

We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to … sex discrimination in wages in the short run in markets where plants have product market power. We also examine evidence …

race and gender are not explained by access, preferences, or severity. But treatment disparities, by themselves, cannot … minority groups despite similar benefits (prejudice) or because race and gender are associated with lower benefit from …