Gender discrimination in job ads: Evidence from china

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 287-336

  Kuhn, Peter ^a,b   Shen, Kailing ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GENDER DISPARITY; INTERNET; JOB SEARCH; LABOR MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL;

CHINA;

EID: 84873585346     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjs046     Document Type: Article

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