A Study Of Reverse Gender Discrimination And Household Resource Mismatchin The Labour Market Of Migrant Workers

The phenomenon of reverse gender discrimination in China’s migrant labor market is a long-neglected problem.In coastal areas,many factories impose the rule of hiring only female workers,resulting in male migrant workers in their 40 s and 50 s facing unemployment problems,while women in the same age group are more popular than men in the migrant labor market.This study defines the phenomenon of "married women with children" as the "reverse gender discrimination" in the employment market of migrant workers,which is different from the familiar "discrimination against women,male preference,and male preference".It is different from the familiar gender discrimination phenomenon of "discriminating against women,giving preference to men,and paying men more for the same job".As a result,in many migrant workers’ families over 40 years old,the wife has stable employment in the factory,while the husband cannot get a stable job in the factory and has to work part-time outside the factory,and is unemployed or semi-unemployed.Many male migrant workers are forced to withdraw from the non-agricultural labor supply market when they are in their prime and have increasing experience and human capital,and this withdrawal has many negative effects on migrant families.As the family is the cell of society,it is therefore important to study this phenomenon for the sustainable economic development of China,maintaining the welfare of rural families,building a harmonious society,and promoting the successful revitalization of the countryside.Based on this,this thesis focuses on the theme of reverse gender discrimination and household resource mismatch in the labor market of migrant workers,and first analyzes the causes of the phenomenon of reverse gender discrimination from the perspectives of both supply and demand of female labor,and concludes that the release of female labor by family planning policy and the lightening of industrial production that makes female labor more popular are the causes of this problem through a dialogue with Low’s model of farming households.The second reason is the use of social exchange theory and the absolute exchange theory.Second,using social exchange theory and absolute advantage theory to analyze how reverse sex discrimination leads to family resource mismatch at both the intergenerational and intra-generational levels of the family,and on the basis of the theoretical analysis,a binary logit regression model is constructed for empirical research using the 2018 China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)data,and the following conclusions are obtained: at the intergenerational level,families in which reverse sex discrimination occurs are At the intergenerational level,children in families with reverse sexism are more likely to be "problem children",which is reflected in the fact that children are more likely to be discontent with their marital life and their husband’s economic contribution in the family.These results remain robust to changing control variables.Both theoretical and empirical findings suggest that reverse gender discrimination leads to a misallocation of family resources.Heterogeneity by region and age reveals that the effect of reverse sexism on reducing marital satisfaction and increasing the probability of having a child who is a "problem child" is more prevalent among families in the eastern region and middle-aged families.Finally,this thesis proposes countermeasures to address the phenomenon of reverse sexism according to the national situation and the research content in China.