1 论文标题
Public Policy and Individual Labor Market Discrimination: An Artefactual Field Experiment in China
2 作者信息
Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, and Yumei He
3 出处和链接(比如,NBER working paper No.11000)
http://external-apps.qut.edu.au/business/documents/QuBEWorkingPapers/2012/WP002.pdf
4 摘要
We study discrimination based on the hukou system, a policy segregating migrants and locals in urban China. We hired household
aids as participants in our artefactual eld experiment and use a gift exchange game to study labor market discrimination. We nd that ocial discrimination based on hukou status also implies individual level discrimination. To identify whether discrimination is statistical or taste-based we introduce the wage promising game, a gift exchange game with a cheap talk wage promise. We nd that discrimination is taste-based: Status is exogenous for our participants, migrants and locals behave similarly and discrimination increases when reasons for statistical discrimination are removed.