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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 …
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We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
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This paper studies a key element of discrimination, namely when stereotypes translate into discriminatory actions …. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by design and test for the presence of two types of belief …-based gender discrimination. We document evidence of explicit discriminators-individuals who are willing to discriminate even when …
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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 enrich this taxonomy, we design a hiring experiment that rules out both of these sources of discrimination along …
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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...
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Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on organizational and group-level behavior theories and...
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that such a concept of racism is not very helpful in understanding actual patterns of discrimination. Phenotype, ethnicity … and religion each have independent effects on discrimination. Tendencies towards discrimination differ greatly between …
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discrimination against obese and very thin students using PeNSE microdata. Data indicate that students that classify themselves as …
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inequality in outcome as well as discrimination, we find strong differences in reactions between male and female participants … of gender-based discrimination on labor supply. …
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