报告题目: Holding up Half the Sky? Affirmative Action, Labor MarketRestructuring and Gender Inequality in Urban China, 1988-2007

主 讲 人：左雪静（复旦大学经济学院助理教授）

讲座时间：2018年10月29日（周一）下午3：30 -5:00

讲座地点：中央财经大学沙河校区学院楼4号楼110教室

主讲人简介:

左雪静，复旦大学经济学院公共经济系助理教授。美国休斯顿大学经济学博士(2018)，中山大学经济学硕士(2009)。主要研究领域为劳动经济学，实验经济学和中国经济。博士期间荣获休斯顿大学经济学院优秀博士生奖励和称号(2015-2016)、蒋经国国际学术交流基金会博士论文奖 (2016-2017)、乔治梅森大学人文研究博士论文奖 (2017-2018)。论文多次入选NBER、SOLE、 NEDUC、IZA等顶级经济学年会并做报告。

摘要:In contrast to most of the existing literature that considers the existence of gender gapsas given ex ante, prior to the State-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in urban China, genderequality in labor market outcomes was enforced through the central planning labor arrangement.Between 1996 and 2001, the national SOE reform resulted in a massive layoff of over 35 millionworkers. The layoff intensity varies across regions, which is correlated with pre-reform regionalindustry composition. This paper examines the effect of the SOE reform on gender inequality inlabor market outcomes. I compare individuals who resided in the relatively high layoff intensityareas to individuals in the low layoff intensity areas, instrumenting the intensity measure with the Bartik shift-share intensity index, before and after the reform. Ifind that the SOE reformnegatively affected women's labor market outcomes substantially more than men's outcomes. Asimple back of the envelope calculation suggests that over 50% of increased gender gaps can beexplained by the SOE reform. To explore whether the response to the SOE reform is relatedwith traditional gender norms, I calculate male-to-female sex ratio using under age 10 cohortsand Ifind that the widening gender employment gap is entirely driven by the areas with highsex ratio. These results are consistent with the persistence of traditional gender norms.

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