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Gender discrimination in job ads : theory and evidence /Peter Kuhn; Kailing Shen

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing - 2010

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … ; internet ; search …

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Do Chinese employers avoid hiring overqualified workers? : evidence from an internet job board

Shen, Kailing; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2012

graduates, and when pitted against less-educated technical school graduates. -- overqualification ; job search ; internet …

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2012

minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that …. -- Chinese firms ; hiring ; discrimination ; ethnicity ; internet job boards ; resume audit study …

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Age and gender profiling in the Chinese and Mexican labor markets : evidence from four job boards

Helleseter, Miguel Delgado; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, … - 2016

When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that it is widely used to request both genders and is especially prevalent in jobs with low skill...

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The determinants of the global digital divide : a cross-country analysis of computer and internet penetration

Chinn, Menzie David (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

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Opinion copulas, homophily and multimodal marginals

Askitas, Nikos - 2017

An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely it is that we will interact and converge. Models using these assumptions are called bounded...

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Overeducation, major mismatch, and return to higher education tiers: evidence from novel data source of a major online recruitment platform in China

Zheng, Yanqiao; Zhang, Xiaoqi; Zhu, Yu - 2020

We develop a novel approach to study overeducation by extracting pre-match information from online recruitment platforms using word segmentation and dictionary building techniques, which can offer significant advantages over traditional survey-based approaches in objectiveness, timeliness,...

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Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process : evidence from China

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing; Zhang, Shuo - 2018

We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection ("compliance" with employers' requests) and employer...

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Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China

Nie, Peng; Peng, Xu; Luo, Tianyuan - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the 2014-2018 China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of internet use (IU …

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