We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms' underlying gender preferences … from firms' propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill …

Despite the mixed empirical evidence, many economists stillhold to the view that Internet will promote competition … betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …

Despite the mixed empirical evidence, many economists stillhold to the view that Internet will promote competition … betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …