Gender and the labour market: evidence from experiments

Lab experiments are an increasingly valuable tool for understanding differences in how men and women are treated in the labour market. Dr Ghazala Azmat and Professor Barbara Petrongolo explore what has been learned about the extent to which differences in men and women's pay and employment opportunities can be explained by discrimination or by differences in their preferences or productivity.

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Year of publication:	2014-05
Authors:	Azmat, Ghazala ; Petrongolo, Barbara
Institutions:	Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Subject:	Gender \| field experiments \| lab experiments \| discrimination \| gender preferences

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CentrePiece - The Magazine for Economic Performance.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	J16 - Economics of Gender ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J71 - Discrimination ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; C93 - Field Experiments
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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