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沙特劳动力市场中的缺失女性、整合成本与大推进政策

Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics · 2022 · Conrad Miller、Jennifer Peck、Mehmet Seflek

中文摘要

在社会规范推行性别隔离的环境中, 企业同时雇用男性和女性可能面临成本。这类整合成本可能阻碍女性就业。我们开发了一套方法来检验固定整合成本是否存在, 并估计在这些成本构成约束的全男性企业中的反事实女性就业。我们在沙特阿拉伯应用这一方法, 发现整合成本对大多数企业均构成约束。我们表明, Nitaqat——一项激励私营部门企业雇用沙特本国国民的性别中立配额计划——促使企业进行整合, 并大幅增加了沙特女性的就业。(JEL J16, J23, J71, M52, O15, Z13)

Abstract

In settings where social norms promote gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. These integration costs may hinder women's employment. We develop a methodology to test for the presence of fixed integration costs and estimate counterfactual women's employment at all-male firms where these costs bind. We apply our approach in Saudi Arabia and find that integration costs bind for the majority of firms. We show that Nitaqat, a gender-neutral quota program that incentivized the hiring of Saudi nationals at private sector firms, induced firms to integrate and dramatically increased Saudi women's employment. (JEL J16, J23, J71, M52, O15, Z13)
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