Reflections of employers’ gender preferences in job ads in India: An analysis of online job portal data
Using online job portal data and probabilistic regression estimations, the paper investigates the explicit gender bias and salary gap in the Indian job market, reflected in more than 800,000 job recruitment advertisements. Exploring formal and informal sector occupations, the study finds high existe...
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| author | Chowdhury, Afra R Areias, Ana C Imaizumi, Saori Nomura, Shinsaku Yamauchi, Futoshi |
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| description | Using online job portal data and probabilistic regression estimations, the paper investigates the explicit gender bias and salary gap in the Indian job market, reflected in more than 800,000 job recruitment advertisements. Exploring formal and informal sector occupations, the study finds high existence of employers’ gender bias in hiring. Explicit gender preferences are highly job specific, and it is common to mention the preferred gender in job ads, which, in general, favor men over women. Although ads for professional occupations exhibit less explicit gender bias, they are not gender neutral. In all types of professional jobs, irrespective of the share of ads with preference for men or women, on average, ads targeting men specify/offer much higher salary. Employers in elementary sectors as well as blue-collar jobs express more segregated gender preference. The findings support the existing research that argues women are more preferred in low-quality, low-status, typically lowpaid informal jobs. Targeting women for low-quality jobs explains half of the mean offered salary gap specified in ads; the rest is direct gender bias. The paper also suggests that, with the rise of new technology and sectors, gender bias in hiring in those new types of jobs is expected to decline. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1456502025-12-08T10:29:22Z Reflections of employers’ gender preferences in job ads in India: An analysis of online job portal data Chowdhury, Afra R Areias, Ana C Imaizumi, Saori Nomura, Shinsaku Yamauchi, Futoshi gender gender equality labour remuneration gender analysis Using online job portal data and probabilistic regression estimations, the paper investigates the explicit gender bias and salary gap in the Indian job market, reflected in more than 800,000 job recruitment advertisements. Exploring formal and informal sector occupations, the study finds high existence of employers’ gender bias in hiring. Explicit gender preferences are highly job specific, and it is common to mention the preferred gender in job ads, which, in general, favor men over women. Although ads for professional occupations exhibit less explicit gender bias, they are not gender neutral. In all types of professional jobs, irrespective of the share of ads with preference for men or women, on average, ads targeting men specify/offer much higher salary. Employers in elementary sectors as well as blue-collar jobs express more segregated gender preference. The findings support the existing research that argues women are more preferred in low-quality, low-status, typically lowpaid informal jobs. Targeting women for low-quality jobs explains half of the mean offered salary gap specified in ads; the rest is direct gender bias. The paper also suggests that, with the rise of new technology and sectors, gender bias in hiring in those new types of jobs is expected to decline. 2018-12-11 2024-06-21T09:04:48Z 2024-06-21T09:04:48Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145650 en Open Access World Bank Chowdhury, Afra Rahman; Areias, Ana Carolina; Imaizumi, Saori; Nomura, Shinsaku; Yamauchi, Futoshi. 2018. Reflections of employers' gender preferences in job ads in India : an analysis of online job portal data (English). Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 8379; Paper is funded by the Strategic Research Program (SRP). Washington, DC : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/548581522089881652/Reflections-of-employers-gender-preferences-in-job-ads-in-India-an-analysis-of-online-job-portal-data |
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| title | Reflections of employers’ gender preferences in job ads in India: An analysis of online job portal data |
| title_full | Reflections of employers’ gender preferences in job ads in India: An analysis of online job portal data |
| title_fullStr | Reflections of employers’ gender preferences in job ads in India: An analysis of online job portal data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reflections of employers’ gender preferences in job ads in India: An analysis of online job portal data |
| title_short | Reflections of employers’ gender preferences in job ads in India: An analysis of online job portal data |
| title_sort | reflections of employers gender preferences in job ads in india an analysis of online job portal data |
| topic | gender gender equality labour remuneration gender analysis |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145650 |
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