Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance

This paper studies how the scarcity of different types of workers in a region shapes firm innovation across industries, using the unbalanced regional sex ratios in China as a source of identification strategy. The empirical results show that the shortage of female workers has spurred firms in female...

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Autores principales: Chen, Taoran, Tan, Zhibo, Zhang, Xiaobo
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141178

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