论文标题
跳到男性主导的职业:减少中国妇女性别工资差距的一种新颖方式
Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce gender wage gap for Chinese women
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论文摘要
职业隔离被广泛认为是导致劳动力市场性别歧视的主要原因之一。我们使用在线求职者的大规模中国简历数据,我们发现了一个有趣的现象,即男性比例较高的职业具有较小的性别工资差距,以女性男性比率在工资上的比率衡量。我们进一步表明,中国职业隔离的严重程度在整体和区域上都较低,而且职业间歧视比职业内歧视小得多。也就是说,在改变职业时,中国妇女不会面临大障碍。因此,我们建议Chineses妇女一种缩小性别工资差距的新方法:加入男性主导的职业。同时,值得注意的是,尽管男性主导职业的性别工资差距较小,但这并不意味着那里的性别歧视较小。
Occupational segregation is widely considered as one major reason leading to the gender discrimination in labor market. Using large-scale Chinese resume data of online job seekers, we uncover an interesting phenomenon that occupations with higher proportion of men have smaller gender wage gap measured by the female-male ratio on wage. We further show that the severity of occupational segregation in China is low both overall and regionally, and the inter-occupational discrimination is much smaller than the intra-occupational discrimination. That is to say, Chinese women do not face large barriers when changing their occupations. Accordingly, we suggest Chineses women a new way to narrow the gender wage gap: to join male-dominated occupations. Meanwhile, it is worth noticing that although the gender wage gap is smaller in male-dominated occupations, it does not mean that the gender discrimination is smaller there.