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discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … out both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination … rely on statistically inaccurate beliefs but differ in how clearly they reveal that the choice was based on gender. Our …
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discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … out both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination … rely on statistically inaccurate beliefs but differ in how clearly they reveal that the choice was based on gender. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290776
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical …
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities’ strategies to … investigate Armenians’ willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to … perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender … teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with …
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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244324
, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent … piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …
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anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test … for this notion of 'motivated procrastination'. In a longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals must complete a … beliefs among workers, which causally increase the deferral of work to the future. The roots for biased beliefs stem from …
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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Most studies of gender discrimination consider how male versus female candidates are assessed given otherwise identical … no gender difference or with a female advantage. Perhaps surprisingly, we observe no gender discrimination overall … candidate before making a final assessment. We use a large controlled experiment to explore how this type of endogenous …
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