This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil … value of information and the role of the media in reducing informational asymmetries in the political process. …

-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially … operations. This finding is consistent with taste-based theories of discrimination and with commitments made by large firms to …

, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …

Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by … plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … discrimination influencing female occupational and industrial distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …

an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an …

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 …

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 …

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 …