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This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some … discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …
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crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences …The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in … fouls are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …
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measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin …
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Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by...
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in … China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over …
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positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of … executive employment, which allows for a full characterization of the gender composition of executive management. We establish …
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implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit … men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One …
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that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …
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