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A standard hidden information model is considered to study the influence of the a priori productivity distribution on the optimal contract. A priori more productive (hazard rate dominant) agents work less, enjoy lower rents, but generate a higher expected surplus.
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The paper explains how workers' expectations of being discriminated against can be self-confirming, accounting for the persistence of unequal outcomes in the labour market even beyond the causes that originally generated them. The theoretical framework used is a two-stage game of incomplete...
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U.S.. Furthermore, using U.S. data, we find that the discrimination of the unemployed increased over the 1980's in those …
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Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) show that there need not exist a competitive equilibrium in markets with adverse selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents − an agent's utility upon accepting a contract depends on the average type attracted by the...
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Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows … us to eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as potential sources of discrimination, thus …
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Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and … family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is …
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We use a simple framework, adopted from general equilibrium search models, to estimate the extent to which monopsony power (or labor market frictions) can account for gender differences in pay, using data from a chain of regional grocery stores. In this framework, the elasticity of labor supply...
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of observed discrimination against some minorities in the labor market. A game of incomplete information is presented … different beliefs, even though discriminatory tastes and statistical discrimination by employers have disappeared. Wrong beliefs …
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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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This is the first study providing evidence of a new form of discrimination, implicit discrimination, acting in real … results indicate that implicit discrimination acts differently compared to explicit discrimination and that it is an important …
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