Abstract:Previous studies usually attribute residual gender pay gap net of human capital, job characteristics, and family responsibilities to discrimination against women, without directly exploring the underlying discriminatory mechanisms that generate gender inequalities in the labor market. By applying and extending the statistical discrimination model proposed by Yip and Wong (2014) to post-socialist urban China, we examine how age-specific fertility rate (ASFR)—as a proxy for the likelihood of women taking materni… Show more
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