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To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers … data align well with the idea of a concentrated discrimination account, whereby a minority of employers who privately hold … negative attitudes towards homosexual individuals are responsible for most instances of hiring discrimination. …
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set out a model explaining why differences in discrimination at the stage of invitation for interviews can arise when … recruiters display identical discriminatory attitudes in both sectors. The estimation of this model shows that discrimination at … the invitation stage is a poor predictor of discrimination at the hiring stage. This suggests that many correspondence …
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the private benefits and spillover costs of employer favoritism (or discrimination). Group identity is induced on subjects … combat favoritism/discrimination. This result also identifies one potential micro-foundation of societal unrest that may link …
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This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.
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Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...
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We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we … discrimination against migrants by the general population is both widespread and substantial. Our causal moderation analysis shows …
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substitution among commodities in utility functions. We then use the evidence of price discrimination in product markets against …
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objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co …
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