labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the … to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian …

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 …

female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …

We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to … investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for … competition of about 4 percentage points. The determinants of this gap seem to be gender differences in risk-aversion and self …

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 …

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 … information acquisition into correspondence field experiments. In both countries we study we find that unfavorable signals …

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 …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

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 …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …