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Gender Stereotyping in the Labor Market:

A Descriptive Analysis of Almost One Million Job Ads across 710 Occupations and Occupational Positions Gender Stereotyping in the Labor Market

This IAB-Discussion Paper presents patterns of gender stereotyping in job ads in the German labor market and examines its association with the unequal distribution of men and women across occupations. Using a large dataset of job ads from the "BA-Jobbörse", one of the largest online job portals in Germany, we apply a machine learning algorithm to identify the explicitly verbalized job descriptions.

IAB-Discussion Paper 13/2024: Gender Stereotyping in the Labor Market: A Descriptive Analysis of Almost One Million Job Ads across 710 Occupations and Occupational Positions

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