We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …

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 …

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

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 …

economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to … support equal employment opportunities based on sexual orientation. Information that the World Health Organization (WHO) does …

We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female … discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973), in terms of partial equilibrium models, have argued that the … forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the …

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment is rapidly increasing and drastically changing how people apply … to jobs and how applications are reviewed. In this paper, we use two field experiments to study how AI recruitment tools … demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than …