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Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that...

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New evidence on pay gap between men and women in Turkey

Akhmedjonov, Alisher - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 32-34

between men and women in Turkey is almost entirely explained by labor market discrimination toward women. …

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Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination in Europe: Homosexuality and Physical Appearance

Patacchini, Eleonora; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field …

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Indiscriminate discrimination: A correspondence test for ethnic homophily in the Chicago labor market

Jacquemet, Nicolas; Yannelis, Constantine - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 824-832

Numerous field experiments have demonstrated the existence of discrimination in labor markets against specific minority … groups. This paper uses a correspondence test to determine whether this discrimination is due to prejudice against specific …

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Did the September 11th attacks affect the Canadian labour market?

Shannon, Michael - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 1, pp. 91-93

Difference-in-differences estimates of the effects of the September 11th attacks on labour market outcomes of Muslims are generated using 2001 and 2006 Canadian Census data. Little evidence of negative, significant impacts on employment, hours, weeks-worked or wages is found.

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Taste-based discrimination evidence from a shift in ethnic preferences after WWI

Moser, Petra - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 2, pp. 167-188

-based discrimination in one of the world's most elite professional settings: applications to trade at the NYSE. This analysis indicates …

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The emergence of male leadership in competitive environments

Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 111-117

We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....

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Evidence on Caste Based Discrimination

Siddique, Zahra - In: Labour Economics 18 (2011) S1, pp. 146-146

caste based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20% more resumes than … callback between high and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are … with a larger scale of operations. This finding is consistent with taste-based theories of discrimination and with …

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Do fairness and race matter in generosity? Evidence from a nationally representative charity experiment

Fong, Christina M.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 5, pp. 372-394

We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of approximately 1000 participants from a nationally representative sample. We manipulate the perceived worthiness and race of the charities' recipients with an audiovisual...

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Decomposing wage differentials between migrant workers and urban workers in urban China's labor markets

Lee, Leng - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 461-470

This paper looks at wage discrimination faced by China's rural–urban migrants. Using data from the China Urban Labour … variation in discrimination there is. Unlike previous studies of wage discrimination in China, this research includes a more … migrants still face a significant amount of discrimination, but that this varies a lot between cities. …

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