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

这项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应届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，但在世界许多地区，女性劳动力参与率仍然很低，而且落后于男性。这项研究涉及在劳动力市场平台上进行的信息实验，在这个实验中，随机选择个人求职者来获得关于公司性别构成和/或与他们匹配的职位主管的性别信息。这位求职者还被问及她的家人对这份工作的看法。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。这项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和她对家人对她求职偏好的看法之间的差异，以揭示家庭担忧和工作场所特征是如何共同影响女性劳动力供应决策的。这一研究项目的结果将为增加女性劳动力供应并在此过程中促进经济增长和减少性别收入不平等的政策提供投入。本研究项目将使用现场实验来调查与性别相关的工作和公司特征以及家庭和社会认知对女性劳动力供应的影响。PIs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，如工人的性别构成、主管的性别和工作时间，并获取有关家庭对工作的同意和公司特征的信息，以了解这些信息如何影响求职者的劳动力供应决策。在交叉随机化中，每个人都准备好考虑家人的求职建议。令人感兴趣的结果是求职者是否选择申请她匹配的每个职位，并满足基本资格。这项实验的结果与一系列支付意愿的小插曲相匹配，这些小插曲衡量了她自己的偏好与她对家人在寻找工作时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的女性劳动力参与率没有跟上女性教育的增长步伐。结果还将为雇佣更多女性人力资本的政策提供投入，从而导致更快的经济增长、收入增加，并可能导致收入中的性别平等。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.