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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
, conditional on team performance, team payroll, and a variety of coaching quality indicators. There were also statistically …. Together, these findings do not suggest that black NBA coaches are subject to racial discrimination in entry, pay or retention. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566734
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Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism
Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
– truancy among active male athletes declines significantly, with the effects larger in earlier grades and for black and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959529
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990933
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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990936
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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884078
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Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
Bartos, Vojtech; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884110
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884175
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Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Laouénan, Morgane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of … the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run … there is both ethnic and customer discrimination in the French labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884373
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Motherhood Wage Penalty in Times of Transition
Nizalova, Olena Y.; Sliusarenko, Tamara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
decreased productivity/effort, and discrimination. Earlier literature provides a range of estimates from an up to 20% wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889995