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Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...
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Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
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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 …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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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 …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
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key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …
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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. …
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