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Physical disability and labor market discrimination : evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Goussé, Marion; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2018
We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417670
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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Informed choices : gender gaps in career advice
Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021
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 career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428940
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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination : experimental evidence from basic information treatments
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022
economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797735
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Identifying and overcoming gender barriers in tech : a field experiment on inaccurate statistical discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
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 …
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LinkedOut? : a field experiment on discrimination in job network formation
Evsyukova, Yulia; Rusche, Felix; Mill, Wladislaw - 2024
We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the U.S. using a two-stage field … discrimination across social groups. In the second stage, we exogenously endow Black and White profiles with the same networks and … ask connected users for career advice. We find no evidence of direct discrimination in information provision. However …
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The long-run effects of California's paid family leave act on women's careers and childbearing : new evidence from a regression discontinuity design and U.S. tax data
Bailey, Martha J.; Byker, Tanya; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, … - 2024
We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We...
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Innovation contests
Pérez-Castrillo, J. David; Wettstein, David - 2014
We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants' efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...
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