We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … 1983 and 2003 in the U.S. We apply the outcome test methodology recently used to assess racial profiling in police search … minority and White prisoners become marginal from the perspective of their probability of parole violation. Parole boards …

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 …

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 …

these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe is typically increasing … a glass ceiling effect. The existence of this glass ceiling suggests that the average gender pay gap in Europe is mainly … extent to which these stylised facts are due to policies and institutions, discrimination, to other unobservable factors, or …