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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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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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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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Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to … religious and racial intolerance and discrimination relative to other immigrants. Further, I do not find evidence that after 9 …
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In this paper, a correspondence testing experiment is conducted to examine sexual orientation discrimination against … registered partnership are equally discriminated in comparison to the heterosexual women in the city of Munich, no discrimination …
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traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a … endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
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