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Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making
Fryer, Roland G.; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
smaller (minority) groups. We then apply the model to understand simple forms of discrimination and social identity. It is … shown that discrimination in hiring can result from such cognitive processes even when there is no malevolent taste to do so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135029
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Hiring discrimination in the French financial sector: an econometric analysis on field experiment data
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Pascale, PETIT - EconWPA - 2004
We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled … compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408369
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Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition
Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001
Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556832
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Insider Power, Wage Discrimination, and Fairness
Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg - EconWPA - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076544
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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil
Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005
discrimination that builds on the work of S. Lundberg and R. Startz and incorporates differences in the cost of acquiring an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125740
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An Equilibrium Search Model with Co-Worker Discrimination
Sasaki, Masaru - EconWPA - 1998
This paper analyzes the effect of co-worker discrimination on wage and unemployment differentials between males and … females using a search model. In the presence of asymmetric co- worker discrimination, no female-dominated firm emerges in the … Moreover, an increase in the degree of discrimination by males results in gains to them in terms of higher wages and lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125794
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Gender Bias and The Indonesian Financial Crisis: Were Girls Hit Hardest?
Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2004
We analyze how the financial crisis affected a wide range of investments in Indonesian children and children's outcomes including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large nationally representative sample. We build on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407632
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Are Investments in Daughters Lower When Daughters Move Away?
Kevane, Michael; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2003
In much of the developing world daughters receive lower education and other investments than do their brothers, and may even be so devalued as to suffer differential mortality. Daughter disadvantage may be due in part to social norms that prescribe that daughters move away from their natal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407654
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Gender Bias and The Indonesian Financial Crisis: Were Girls Hit Hardest?
Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003
We analyze how the financial crisis affected a wide range of investments in Indonesian children and children's outcomes including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large nationally representative sample. We build on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407666
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Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia
Kevane, Michael; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2003
In many nations, parents exhibit a variety of behaviors that favor sons over daughters. In this paper we provide evidence suggesting that in Indonesia there is no problem of "missing daughters" and that patterns of births, birth spacing and nutrition allocations do not suggest son preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407740