A key prediction of discrimination models is that competition in the labor market serves as a moderating force on … employer discrimination. In the presence of market frictions, however, recessions create excess labor supply and thus generate … opportunities to engage in discriminatory behaviors far more cheaply. A natural question arises: does discrimination increase during …

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. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules …

seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment … planned search period and decreases thereafter, why most applicants arrive early in the recruitment process, and why the …

A key prediction of discrimination models is that competition in the labor market serves as a moderating force on … employer discrimination. In the presence of market frictions, however, recessions create excess labor supply and thus generate … opportunities to engage in discriminatory behaviors far more cheaply. A natural question arises: does discrimination increase during …

, 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 …

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …

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 … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …

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 …