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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
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The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
aware of running the risk of being included in such an experiment. This suggests that the detection risk alone is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822518
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Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination: The Gender Difference
Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
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Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
Kaas, Leo; Manger, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522426
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Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700961
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Measuring the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Guilt: Estimation Using Equilibrium and Stated Belief Models
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander; Strobel, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
controlling for a possible source of a consensus effect. All models are estimated using data from an experiment of proposal and …
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Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates that in the important case of workers' decisions concerning exposure to fatal injury risk...
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Unwillingness to Pay for Privacy: A Field Experiment
Beresford, Alastair R.; Kübler, Dorothea; Preibusch, Sören - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557221
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Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics
Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278194
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Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?
Aziz, Mehnaz; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Jimenez, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level … elusive. The inability of successive governments to reform the system has created severe constraints for Pakistan's economic … education. We discuss in this paper the imperative for education system reform in Pakistan, and articulate why a window of …
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