’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms …. We conduct a largescale correspondence test in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, sending out approx. 9,000 job … applications, varying job candidate’s personal characteristics such as marital status and age of children. We find evidence that …

We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from …, discrimination against migrants does not differ by the perceived educational background of the email sender. However, it does differ … shares, and lower financial resources. Discrimination on the child care market likely perpetuates existing inequalities of …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay …

discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules …Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists … have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical …

discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …. Together, these findings show the malleability of statistical discrimination and provide levers to improve hiring and reduce … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …

recessions? We focus on age discrimination and test this hypothesis in two ways. We first use employee discrimination charges … discrimination firing and hiring charges increases by 4.8% and 3.4%, respectively. Even though the incentive to file weaker claims is …A key prediction of discrimination models is that competition in the labor market serves as a moderating force on …

This paper analyses how demographic changes of the labour force affect labour demand. Do firms adjust their hiring … behaviour to an ageing society? Combining data at the firm level and the administrative district level, we analyse the hiring … generally rise with an ageing labour force. Also, part-time employment induces firms to engage more older workers but this …

explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the discrimination hypothesis. Using a cross section of 13 countries, we show … interpret this result as evidence of employer discrimination in favor of taller workers. Our results are consistent with the …

We study a search model with employment protection legislation. We show that if the output from the match is uncertain … to different hiring standards. If a bad match takes place, discriminated workers will use longer time to find another job … sustaining discrimination. In contrast to standard models, the existence of employers with a taste for discrimination may make it …