documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to …The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

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 … or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …

Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant intercaste and inter-religion differences in earnings have … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …

maintaining a work force with diversity in age. Overall, the implication is that it is beneficial to define additional short …

A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this … deploy English cross-sectional data to explore these issues, using latent class analysis to tackle firm-level heterogeneity … top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region. …

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 …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …

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 … counterparts to obtain the same number of interview callbacks. Women are preferred to men in three of our four occupations. Women …