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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 …
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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 …
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value basis for the beauty premium, and it appears that this is a form of insidious discrimination. …
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addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. In … discrimination and also outside job applications correlate with an individual receiving earnings below that expected, given their … higher pay increases in response to outside offers. This may arise due to discrimination, and we find that perceptions of …
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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 …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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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. …
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We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
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The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in …
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of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
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