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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 …
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Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that...
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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541271
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A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Proposition 209, enacted in California in 1996 and made effective the following year, ended state affirmative action programs not only in education, but also for public employment and government contracting. This paper uses CPS data and triple difference techniques to take advantage of the...
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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy
Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822297
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The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?
Bell, David; Heitmueller, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …
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Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination
Kaas, Leo; Lu, Jun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
, but all wage differences become negligible when the taste for discrimination is small. We analyze the effect of an equal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042621
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Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?
Kaas, Leo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against … minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is … for discrimination or stronger competition, equal pay legislation leads to more job segregation, and sometimes minority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566715
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The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960's
Duleep, Harriet; Regets, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper uses Social Security longitudinal earnings records matched to Current Population Survey data to examine changes in the relative earnings of Hispanic men during a period of dramatic change in public and private policies toward race and ethnicity characterized by, but not limited to,...
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