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Does economics make you sexist?
Paredes, Valentina; Paserman, Marco Daniele; Pino, Francisco - 2020
Recent research has highlighted unequal treatment for women in academic economics along several different dimensions: promotion, hiring, credit for co-authorship, and standards for publication in professional journals. Can the source of these differences lie in biases against women that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212720
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Does Economics Make You Sexist?
Paredes, Valentina - 2020
Recent research has highlighted unequal treatment for women in academic economics along several different dimensions: promotion, hiring, credit for co-authorship, and standards for publication in professional journals. Can the source of these differences lie in biases against women that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834573
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Divided we stand? Professional consensus and political conflict in academic economics
Beyer, Karl M.; Pühringer, Stephan - 2019
In this paper we address the issue of the role of ideology and political preferences of publically engaged economists and contribute to the debate on consensus in economics. To do so, we conduct a social network analysis on the signatories of economist petitions, which we identify as one channel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140684
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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451238
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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450353
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Collaboration, alphabetical order and gender discrimination - evidence from the lab
Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2020
If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213010
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Ethnocentrism and Internal Compensation Structuring: An Experimental Examination of Point Factor Job Evaluation
Martin, Daniel; Wiley, Donna; Legree, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
demographics (ethnicity and gender) contribute significantly to discrimination between perceived labor pools, and (c) participant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836414
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'I Occasionally Learn Something' : Paul Samuelson, Gender Bias and Discrimination Before 1973
Backhouse, Roger - 2018
in the context of the discussions of discrimination in his textbook, Economics, and his interactions with female students …: Samuelson recognized very early that women were held back by discrimination and wrote about it with a depth not seen in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915697
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The Disability–Employability Divide : Bottlenecks to Equal Opportunity
Areheart, Bradley A.; Stein, Michael Ashley - 2018
Joseph Fishkin’s new book, Bottlenecks, reinvigorates the concept of equal opportunity by simultaneously engaging with its complications and attempting to simplify its ambitions. Fishkin describes bottlenecks as narrow spaces in the opportunity structure through which people must pass if they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014143456
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Refugees in Germany perceived higher discrimination in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Prömel, Christopher; Zinn, Sabine - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 17/18, pp. 119-127
Refugees in Germany perceive discrimination due to their country of origin in various life dimensions, which can … perceive discrimination on the labor market, at educational institutions, on the housing market, with public authorities, and … in daily life. The results show that perceived discrimination increased in all observed dimensions between 2019 and 2020 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204842