employer's gender preference. We find that advertised wages are lowest in jobs where employers prefer women, even when this … explicit gender preference, or gendered words, and assigning them to the categories of hard and soft-skills, personality traits … returns but result in a smaller share of female applicants. This contributes to a gender earnings gap. Our findings illustrate …

-driven categorization of required skill words and construct gender associations of different skill categories using word embeddings. Next … observed gender wage gaps. We also find that large firms require a more extensive range of skills, implying that …

-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …

When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of … 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense because it generated a large increase in gender …

occupation are included. These findings suggest that the observed gender differential primarily reflects systematic differences … in the types of jobs into which men and women select. -- dismissals ; gender differentials ; involuntary job separations …

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 … this association, with compliance playing the larger role. Explicit gender requests account for over half of the gender …

analyze gender differences in job search taking into account observed and unobserved worker heterogeneity and censoring … model. -- Gender differences ; job search ; displaced workers ; wage differences ; discrimination …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …