RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Age Twist in Employers’ Gender Requests
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 428
OP 469
DO 10.3368/jhr.55.3.0416-7836R2
VO 55
IS 2
A1 Miguel Delgado Helleseter
A1 Peter Kuhn
A1 Kailing Shen
YR 2020
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/428.abstract
AB On one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, firms’ explicit gender requests shift dramatically away from women and towards men when firms are seeking older (as opposed to younger) workers. Observed characteristics of job ads can account for 65 percent of this “age twist”; within this “explained” component, employers’ requests for older male managers and for young women in customer contact and helping positions account for more than half. Based on its timing, the remainder of the twist, which occurs within job titles, appears to be connected to a differential effect of parenthood on firms’ requests for men versus women.I have heard the wish expressed that one could be a girl and a beautiful girl from the age of thirteen to the age of twenty-two and after that to be a man.–Jean de la Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688