Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Female Underemployment - Job Attributes and Labor Supply Decisions

经济学博士论文研究：女性就业不足——工作属性与劳动力供给决策

• 批准号: 1824373
• 负责人: Manoj Mohanan
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1824373&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Economics; Female

This research project will study how gender-related workplace attributes and family pressures affect labor supply decisions of recent high school and college women graduates. Despite increasing female educational attainment, female labor force participation (FLFP) remains low and lags that of men in many parts of the world. This research involves an information experiment on a labor market platform in which individual job-seekers are randomly selected to receive information about the gender composition of the firm and/or gender of the supervisor at positions they are matched with. The jobseeker is also asked about how her family feels about the job match. The researchers are interested in whether the job-seeker chooses to apply to the positions for which she is matched with. The results of this experiment are matched with a series of questions that measure differences between the jobseeker's preferences and her perceptions of her family's preferences regarding her job search to shed light on how family concerns and job place characteristics jointly affect female labor supply decisions. The results of this research project will provide inputs into policies to increase female labor supply and in the process, enhance economic growth and reduce gender income inequality.This research project will use field experiments to investigate the effects of gender-related job and firm characteristics and family and social perceptions on female labor supply. The PIs will provide information about work place and firm characteristics, such as the gender composition of workers, supervisor's gender, and hours of work, to randomly selected individual prospective job-seekers as well as elicit information about familial consent of the job and firm characteristics to see how these affect the jobseeker's labor supply decisions. In a cross-randomization, individuals are primed to think about their family's job search advice. The outcome of interest is whether the job-seeker chooses to apply to each of the positions for which she is matched and meets the basic qualifications. The results of this experiment are matched with a series of willingness-to-pay vignettes that measure differences between her own preferences and her perceptions of her family's preferences regarding her job search, to shed light on household constraints on female labor supply decisions. The results of this research will shed light on why female labor force participation in many parts of the world has not kept pace with increased female education. The results will also provide inputs into policies to employ increasing female human capital, hence lead to faster economic growth, increased income, and possibly gender equity in incomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该研究项目将研究与性别相关的工作场所属性和家庭压力如何影响近期高中和大学女毕业生的劳动力供应决策。 尽管女性受教育程度不断提高，但女性劳动力参与率（FLFP）仍然较低，并且在世界许多地区落后于男性。 这项研究涉及在劳动力市场平台上进行的信息实验，其中随机选择个体求职者来接收有关公司性别构成和/或与其匹配的职位主管性别的信息。 求职者还被问及她的家人对工作匹配的看法。 研究人员感兴趣的是求职者是否选择申请与她匹配的职位。 该实验的结果与一系列问题相匹配，这些问题衡量了求职者的偏好与她对家庭偏好的看法之间的差异，以揭示家庭问题和工作场所特征如何共同影响女性劳动力供应决策。 该研究项目的结果将为增加女性劳动力供应的政策提供投入，并在此过程中促进经济增长并减少性别收入不平等。该研究项目将利用实地实验来调查与性别相关的工作和企业特征的影响以及家庭和社会对女性劳动力供给的看法。 PI将向随机选择的潜在求职者提供有关工作地点和公司特征的信息，例如工人的性别构成、主管的性别和工作时间，并获取有关工作的家庭同意和公司特征的信息了解这些如何影响求职者的劳动力供应决策。 在交叉随机化中，个人准备好考虑家人的求职建议。 感兴趣的结果是求职者是否选择申请与她匹配并满足基本资格的每个职位。 该实验的结果与一系列支付意愿小插图相匹配，这些小插图衡量了她自己的偏好与她对家庭对她求职的偏好的看法之间的差异，以揭示家庭对女性劳动力供应决策的限制。 这项研究的结果将揭示为什么世界许多地区女性劳动力参与率未能跟上女性教育水平提高的步伐。 研究结果还将为雇用更多女性人力资本的政策提供投入，从而带来更快的经济增长、增加收入，并可能实现收入中的性别平等。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估进行评估，认为值得支持。智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。