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We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more … hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test …
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matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration … background, it is most pronounced for applicants with an African background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a … discrimination in Austria …
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made no significant improvement to minority applicant outcomes. Clear evidence of statistical discrimination was found only …Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were … surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were …
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This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …
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for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two … constraints for blue-collar jobs than white-collar/pink-collar jobs, and that women face greater age discrimination than men … written commitments to equal opportunities.The design of the study suggests that discrimination results from distaste for …
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The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual marriage and adoption of children. In this paper, we examine for the first time whether schools are...
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This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from …
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identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for statistical discrimination. Further … turn induce taste-based discrimination. Religiosity may also relate to general prejudice. We test these hypotheses across …
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and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This …This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … majority or minority names. First, we find that there is no ethnic difference in buyers' evaluation of rice quality. Second, we …
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discrimination, but it may also induce a reaction from individuals who were not acting in a biased way …
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