Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi
通过马拉维一家企业的招聘实验，发现基于推荐的招聘可能使合格女性处于劣势，男性推荐人系统性地推荐更少女性，即使有绩效激励也未改变这一倾向。
We use a field experiment to show that referral-based hiring has the potential to disadvantage qualified women, highlighting another potential channel behind gender disparities in the labor market. Through a recruitment drive for a firm in Malawi, we look at men’s and women’s referral choices under different incentives and constraints. We find that men systematically refer few women, despite being able to refer qualified women when explicitly asked for female candidates. Performance pay also did not alter men’s tendencies to refer men. In addition, women did not refer enough high-quality women to offset men’s behavior.