Rational Judgment On Common Cognition Based Career Choice

People make non-randomness career choices obviously in China Labor Market. Common cognition plays a considerable role in this phenomenon. From this prospective, I define Female Industry, Neutral Industry and Male Industry as a premise by people’s select tendency and research on gender income differentials use the data from CGSS(2008). Using the Multi-Logit and Mincer Model to study the employment and income of overall and new classified labor market respectively. Then, based on Brown Decomposition(Brown, 1980), the discrimination is divided into wage discrimination intra-occupational and employment discrimination inter-occupational. The results show, on gender income differences, the neutral industry has the largest gender income gap and is twice the overall market; in terms of wage discrimination, wage discrimination against women is the most serious in neutral industry and is 10 times the overall labor market, wage discrimination against male is only exists in male industry, women have the advantage of average salary in male industry; for the employment discrimination, women face the most serious employment discrimination in female industry, is 13 times the market’s overall employment discrimination, and the next is the male industry. Therefore, measured from the employment, the empirical results reveal that the female’s choice is irrational and measured form the income, the results reveal that the male’s choice is not rational. This has been a reversal of people’s non-randomness choice to a certain point and the further analysis may help people to make a really good career choice.