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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 …
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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. …
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already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The …
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This paper aims at studying the effects of learning - seen as a possible source of individual heterogeneity - on team functioning, in an experimental game requiring cooperation and coordination. It contributes to the new emergent cognitive approach to Economics. The empirical analysis starts...
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A number of recent theoretical papers have shown that for buyer-size discounts to emerge in a bargaining model, the total surplus function over which parties bargain must have certain nonlinearities. We test the theory in an experimental setting in which a seller bargains with a number of buyers...
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We study both theoretically and experimentally the decisions players make in two queueing games with batch service. In both games, players are asked to independently decide when to join a discrete-time queue to receive service, or they may simply choose not to join it at all. Equilibrium...
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We introduce a class of two-player cooperation games where each player faces a binary decision, enter or exit. These games have a unique Nash equilibrium of entry. However, entry imposes a large enough negative externality on the other player such that the unique social optimum involves the...
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This paper shows one type of asymetric information problems, their theorethical implications, the design of contracts that mitigate them, as well as some experimental evidence. Furthermore, by extrapolating the results, the paper tries to illustrate certain macroeconomic implications obtained...
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Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination … policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of the gap … sets from the Czech Republic and Slovakia are used to provide such detailed gender wage gap decomposition. The results …
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of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This …Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …
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