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drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use … perceptions. Adoption of pro-testing legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7–30 percent and relative …
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providing insight into the presence of mistake-based discrimination. Specifically if female-headed firms were systematically …
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for the first time to derive equilibrium discrimination by a dominant group and separatism by a weaker group. Consistent …
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intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …
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I study the interaction between discrimination and investment using a directed search model where firms decide the … capital intensity of their production technologies before being matched. Discrimination makes some workers cheap to hire. As a … of discrimination on investment and wages. …
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This paper examines the relation between observer-ratings of attractiveness and skin tone, weight, and height, and provides evidence on whether these physical characteristics affect the likelihood that individuals report discriminatory treatment in a variety of contexts. African Americans with...
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Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …
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employment of the severely disabled. Discrimination, both by employers and by colleagues is discussed, and more attention to …Italy; the part of it which deals with the employment of the disabled is critically discussed in this article …
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