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

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … ethnic groups rather than focusing on a single minority as in most other studies. In all cases, we applied for entry … statistically significant differences in callback rates, suggesting that ethnic minority candidates would need to apply for more …

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

key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …

perspective, it is important to know whether this gap is due to differences in the characteristics of White and Ethnic Minority … groups (which reduce the employability of Ethnic Minority groups relative to Whites) or whether it results from some form of … sensitive to the methodology used. This calls into question previous results based on simple regression techniques, which are …

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behaviour out of …

discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 … per cent higher in the absence of discrimination. This is somewhat higher than previous estimates have indicated. …

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities …

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as … such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on …, namely that in the UK natives and foreign born workers are imperfect substitutes. We show that immigration has primarily …