Be a man or become a nurse: comparing gender discrimination by employers across a wide variety of professions
Autor/in:
Kübler, Dorothea; Schmid, Julia; Stüber, Robert
Quelle: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH; Berlin (Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und Entscheidung, Abteilung Verhalten auf Märkten, SP II 2017-201), 2017. 52 S
Inhalt: We investigate gender discrimination and its variation between firms, occupations, and industries with a factorial survey design (vignette study) for a large sample of German firms. Short CVs of fictitious applicants are presented to human resource managers who indicate the likelihood of the applicants being invited to the next step of the hiring process. We observe that women are evaluated worse than men on average, controlling for all other attributes of the CV, i.e., school grades, age, information about activities since leaving school, parents' occupations etc. Discrimination against women varies across industries and occupations, and is strongest for occupations with lower educational requirements and of lower occupational status. Women receive worse evaluations when applying for male-dominated occupations. Overall, the share of women in an occupation explains more of the difference in evaluations than any other occupation- or firm-related variable.
Schlagwörter:Einstellung; attitude; Entscheidung; decision; gender; Diskriminierung; discrimination; Beruf; occupation; Unternehmen; enterprise; Federal Republic of Germany; Bewerbung; application; Bewertung; evaluation; C99; J71; vignette study
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie
Quelle: ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci '17); New York, 2017. S 83-92
Inhalt: Previous research has shown the existence of gender biases in the depiction of professions and occupations in search engine results. Such an unbalanced presentation might just as likely occur on Wikipedia, one of the most popular knowledge resources on the Web, since the encyclopedia has already been found to exhibit such tendencies in past studies. Under this premise, our work assesses gender bias with respect to the content of German Wikipedia articles about professions and occupations along three dimensions: used male vs. female titles (and redirects), included images of persons, and names of professionals mentioned in the articles. We further use German labor market data to assess the potential misrepresentation of a gender for each specific profession. Our findings in fact provide evidence for systematic over-representation of men on all three dimensions. For instance, for professional fields dominated by females, the respective articles on average still feature almost two times more images of men; and in the mean, 83% of the mentioned names of professionals were male and only 17% female.
Quelle: Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD); Berlin (RatSWD Working Paper Series, 206), 2012. 34 S
Inhalt: "Verknüpfte Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer (Panel-) Datensätze gewinnen in der Analyse von Arbeitsmärkten zunehmend an Bedeutung. In Zusammenarbeit mit Statistik Austria haben wir den Aufbau eines verknüpften Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer Panel-Datensatzes für Österreich über die Jahre 2002 bis 2005 initiiert. Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, diesen Datensatz einem größeren Publikum gegenüber bekannt zu machen. Zunächst stellen wir dessen Aufbau vor, wobei wir explizit sowohl auf die zugrunde liegenden Datenquellen als auch die Verknüpfungsprozedur eingehen. In einem weiteren Schritt präsentieren wir deskriptive Statistiken der im Datensatz enthaltenen Kernvariablen. Zu diesem Zweck betrachten wir drei unterschiedliche Analyseebenen: die Stichprobe als Ganzes, die Firmenebene sowie das einzelne Individuum." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "Matched employer-employee (panel) data sets are gaining increasing importance in the analysis of labour markets. In collaboration with Statistics Austria we recently initiated the set up of a matched employer-employee panel data set for Austria, which covers the years 2002-2005. The aim of the paper is to introduce the data set to a broader audience. We first present the set up of the panel data, indicating in more detail the data sources and matching procedure underlying the matched employer-employee data set for Austria. In a second step we show descriptive statistics of the main variables included in our data set. These various statistics encompass three levels of analysis: the aggregate level (i.e. the entire sample), firm level and individual (employee) level." (author's abstract)
Mechanisms for the effect of field of study on the transition from higher education to work
Titelübersetzung:Mechanismen für die Auswirkungen des Studienfachs auf den Übergang von der Hochschulbildung zur Arbeit
Autor/in:
Klein, Markus
Quelle: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung -MZES-, Universität Mannheim; Mannheim (Arbeitspapiere / Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, Nr. 130), 2010. 31 S.
Inhalt: "Several studies indicate a substantial impact of horizontal differentiations in higher education on monetary and non-pecuniary labour market outcomes. This paper scrutinizes the underlying mechanisms of this effect and addresses the question of why fields of study differ in early labour market re-turns. According to the training costs model the field of study indicates different amounts of training costs to employers. The higher the training costs, the more problematic the labour market integration of graduates. The average expected training costs of a study program are determined by the level of occupational specificity and the selective choice of the graduates. Specifically, 'soft fields' such as humanities or social sciences are considered as less occupational specific and less academically challenging. Besides, it is suggested that structural relations between fields and occupational characteristics act as mediators for the effect of field of study on labour market returns. Using the German HIS (Hochschul-Informations-System) Graduate Panel 1997 the results show that a lack of occupational specificity is partly responsible for difficulties in labour market entry of graduates from 'soft fields', whereas selectivity measures do not contribute to an explanation. By contrast, the type of final degree, the public sector and the required expertise of a job strongly mediate field of study differences. This emphasizes the substantial role of structural and institutionalized relations between education and the labour market." (author's abstract)