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 …

Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly … cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior …

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 …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from … productivity differentials between the two genders. There is thus a largely unexplained residual in the gender job allocation …, which may be consistent with some degree of discrimination in a few of the labour markets considered, especially in southern …

analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household … expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich (Jiangsu) Chinese province we are able to test for different types of gender bias … household spending were found to correspond to gender biases in mortality and enrolment outcomes as revealed in census data for …

. The most important involves the detrimental impact of discrimination and other factors that cause women to accept wage … willing she is to overcome the se handicaps and compete with men in the labour market, and an index of discrimination …

In this paper we revisit the gender decomposition of wages in the presence of selection bias. We show that when labor … participation decision also highlights the importance of using data on both spouses for the analysis of the gender wage gap. Taking … account of these issues might influence the outcome of the decomposition analysis and affect the evidence of discrimination …