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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 … information on the applicants’ aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …
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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 … forms of discrimination identified in our experiment …
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, 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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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various … students’ preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a …Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …
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Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various … students’ preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493021
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …
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This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 …. Despite the fact that neither students' grades nor self-study hours are affected by the instructor's gender, we find that …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …
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This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …
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