Gender Discrimination In Hiring:Evidence From Field Experiment

Since the Reform and Opening Up,China has gained lots of development from the massive cheap labor force,while the large populace also increases the pressure on resources,environment,and society.Then China starts its "one-child" policy,as a result the increase rate of population decrease.However,after the finance crisis,China has struggled its growth in facing with the deflating exports and "demographic dividend".China is experiencing the "New Normal",and the working-age population will not sustain in the future.So how to solve this sustain problem is one of the crucial problems for China.One of the solutions is increasing the labor force participation rate of female,however,the existence of gender discrimination in labor market erodes the willingness of female to find a job,and eventually,it will injury the healthy development of China.Thus,this paper tries to detect the existence and origin of gender discrimination in hiring and provides melodies for curing this phenomenon.To begin with,this paper introduces the existence research on gender discrimination of labor market,and points out the flaws in the methods,perspectives among the research,and then illustrates the merits of the field experiment used in this paper.In addition,this paper precisely introduces the field experiment program.We first fake the resumes used in the experiments based on loads of resumes,which have been collected at first.Then the paper submits the gender-different resumes to the same amount of finance companies located in Beijing,Shanghai,Shenzhen,Wuhan,and Chengdu during the on-line hiring website,then we collect the callback rate from different resumes.Moreover,this paper use OLS regression to find the influence of educational background,regional idiosyncrasies,skills and corporation scales on gender difference in hiring.This paper finds that gender difference in hiring market is widespread and combines with the educational background discrimination.Also,gender discrimination in hiring comes from the risk aversion behavioral of companies which unwilling to take any risk in decreasing productivity of the female.This paper also suggests that the improvement of educational background and skills partly smooth the gender discrimination in hiring.Larger enterprises have more intention to discriminate,while the small and medium enterprises companies do not.At last,this paper provides some solutions for individuals,government and enteprises.