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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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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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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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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...
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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 …
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This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap …
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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
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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 … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
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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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