时间：11月13日（周二）上午10：00-11：30
地点：理科大楼A302（中北校区）
题目：Holding up Half the Sky? Affirmative Action, Labor Market Restructuring and Gender Inequality in Urban China, 1988-2007
主讲人：复旦大学经济学院 左雪静
论文摘要:
In contrast to most of the existing literature that considers the existence of gender gaps as given ex ante, prior to the State-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in urban China, gender equality 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 million workers. The layoff intensity varies across regions, which is correlated with pre-reform regional industry composition. This paper examines the effect of the SOE reform on gender inequality in labor market outcomes. I compare individuals who resided in the relatively high layoff intensity areas to individuals in the low layoff intensity areas, instrumenting the intensity measure with the Bartik shift-share intensity index, before and after the reform. I find that the SOE reform negatively affected women's labor market outcomes substantially more than men's outcomes. A simple back of the envelope calculation suggests that over 50% of increased gender gaps can be explained by the SOE reform. To explore whether the response to the SOE reform is related with traditional gender norms, I calculate male-to-female sex ratio using under age 10 cohorts and I find that the widening gender employment gap is entirely driven by the areas with high sex ratio. But the impact on gender rank gap is small and not significant in both areas.
报告人简介：
左雪静，现为复旦大学经济学院公共经济系助理教授。2018年获得休斯顿大学经济学博士学位，2009年毕业于中山大学。研究领域为劳动经济学、实验经济学以及中国经济等等。现有论文在国际顶级期刊《Review of Economics and Statistics》《Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences》获得再次审稿机会。