willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …. We test the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a …

This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the …, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …

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

study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is … worker on ethnic grounds. In addition, we find that the standard theory of statistical discrimination fails to explain … observed choices, and that taking ethnic prejudice into account helps to predict the incidence of discrimination. …

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … (a more established migrant group) suffering less discrimination than Chinese and Middle Easterners (who have typically …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

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 …

discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay …