Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process: Facts from a Chinese job board

Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior

“…To do this, we follow the strategy in Kuhn et al (2020) and regress the share of female and male applicants to a job on explicit gender requests as well as quartics in F p and M p . We include the set of controls in equation ( 3.3) and use specifications with and without occupation and state fixed effects.…”

“…We also train a Bernoulli Naive Bayes (NB) classifier on our data using the methodology in Kuhn et al (2020) and find that it does not perform well in our context. It gives worse measures of F p and M p in our data with correlations of 0.23 and 0.22 with explicit employer requests for women and men respectively.…”

“…We also contribute to the literature documenting the presence of explicit gender preferences in job ads (Kuhn and Shen, 2013;Helleseter et al, 2020;Ningrum et al, 2020;Chowdhury et al, 2018). In contrast to much of this literature, with the exception of Kuhn et al (2020), we observe applications data which allows us to investigate how job seekers respond to explicit gender requests.…”

“…Marinescu and Wolthoff (2020) show the significance of text contained in job titles in the matching process and use this text to assign jobs to disaggregate occupations. Kuhn et al (2020) use text contained in job titles to construct measures that are predictive of an employer's explicit gender preference for a particular occupation. In contrast, we make use of the text contained in detailed job descriptions as well as job titles.…”

What Dominates the Female Class Identification? Evidence From China

“…Much discrimination toward women still exists in society; one obvious example is the gender discrimination in the process of job hunting (Uunk, 2015 ; Andersson and Harnois, 2020 ; Kuhn et al, 2020 ; Takahashi et al, 2020 ). Some companies do not recruit female job seekers even though there are no explicit regulations for recruitment.…”