蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
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Learning from Job Offers about Labor Supply Constraints: A Barrier for Women without Work Experience
蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
vol. 115,
May 2025
(pp. 297–302)
Abstract
Labor market surveys often include individuals outside the workforce, but respondents who lack work experience may have inaccurate beliefs about their labor supply preferences and constraints. Using data from an incentivized job preferences elicitation in West Bengal, India, we show that women who are out of the labor force make costly mistakes in assessing whether they would take up future hypothetical jobs. Receiving an employment offer and navigating the subsequent decision process improves women's prediction accuracy. Heterogeneity analysis is more consistent with learning about external constraints such as other household members' preferences rather than internal constraints such as own abilities.Citation
Ho, Lisa, Suhani Jalota, and Anahita Karandikar. 2025. "Learning from Job Offers about Labor Supply Constraints: A Barrier for Women without Work Experience." 蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings 115: 297–302. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20251129Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration