演讲题目：When Do Chinese Firms Advertising on Internet Job Boards Discriminate in their Hiring Practices?
讲座时间：10月30日星期五14:00-15:30
讲座地点：后主楼1610
演讲嘉宾：Prof. Margaret Maurer-Fazio

内容摘要：
In this seminar, I will report results from two large‐scale field experiments that investigate how real Chinese firms respond to job applications received from fictitious applicants whose resume characteristics are purposefully crafted to vary only in terms of the specific characteristics being considered. In the first study we focus on ethnicity, which we denote by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant differences in the callback rates by ethnicity and that these differences vary systematically across ethnic groups. Not all firms discriminate – approximately half treat all candidates equally. State-owned firms are significantly less likely than privately‐owned firms to discriminate against minorities. The second study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over occupation, location, and firms' ownership type and size. We find sizable differences in the interview callback rates of attractive and unattractive job candidates. Job candidates with unattractive faces need to put in substantially more applications than their attractive counterparts to obtain the same number of interview callbacks.

主讲人简介：
Margaret Maurer-Fazio is the Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics at Bates College and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and both an M.A. and Honors B.A. in economics from the University of Western Ontario. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Contemporary Chinaand Eurasian Geography and Economics and on the advisory board of the Chinese Women Economists Network.

Maurer-Fazio’s research program focuses on labor market developments in China. Her most recent work includes: (1) a series of papers on China’s rural elders (their work to “retirement” transitions, the relationship between their co-residency with adult children and happiness, and the extent, causes and consequences of being “left behind” when adult children migrate) and; (2) a series of resume (correspondence) audit studies, which focus on the role of ethnicity, facial attractiveness, and employment status in the hiring practices of Chinese firms using Internet job boards. She is co-editor of The Workers’ State Meets the Market: Labour in China’s Transition. She publishes in both economic and China journals such as The Journal of Human Resources, The China Journal, The Journal of Comparative Economics, China Economic Review, International Journal of Manpower, Feminist Economics, and the Journal of Contemporary China.