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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| author | Chen, Taoran Tan, Zhibo Zhang, Xiaobo |
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| description | 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‐intensive industries to innovate more, particularly in industries with low substitution between female and male workers, consistent with the price effect of the directed technical change theory. In male‐intensive industries with high elasticity of substitution and regions with more skewed local sex ratios, firms are more innovative, demonstrating that the market size effect of the directed technical change theory is also at play. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1411782025-10-26T13:01:39Z Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance Chen, Taoran Tan, Zhibo Zhang, Xiaobo innovation gender gender balance labour labour scarcity women female labour 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‐intensive industries to innovate more, particularly in industries with low substitution between female and male workers, consistent with the price effect of the directed technical change theory. In male‐intensive industries with high elasticity of substitution and regions with more skewed local sex ratios, firms are more innovative, demonstrating that the market size effect of the directed technical change theory is also at play. 2022-04 2024-04-12T13:37:24Z 2024-04-12T13:37:24Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141178 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102678 https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewab008 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.12.001 https://doi.org/10.3868/s060-005-016-0020-2 Limited Access Wiley Chen, Taoran; Tan, Zhibo; and Zhang, Xiaobo. 2022. Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 31(2): 418-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12462 |
| spellingShingle | innovation gender gender balance labour labour scarcity women female labour Chen, Taoran Tan, Zhibo Zhang, Xiaobo Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance |
| title | Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance |
| title_full | Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance |
| title_fullStr | Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance |
| title_short | Does female labor scarcity encourage innovation? Evidence from China's gender imbalance |
| title_sort | does female labor scarcity encourage innovation evidence from china s gender imbalance |
| topic | innovation gender gender balance labour labour scarcity women female labour |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141178 |
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