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

of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …

addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. In … higher pay increases in response to outside offers. This may arise due to discrimination, and we find that perceptions of … discrimination and also outside job applications correlate with an individual receiving earnings below that expected, given their …

Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand …

discrimination at the top than at the bottom of the distribution, in accordance with the conventional ‘glass ceiling’ hypothesis. On …

of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …