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Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination : a hiring experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2022

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...

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Voluntary "donations" versus reward-oriented "contributions" : two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2022 - This version: 05 May 2022

In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared donation and contribution framings. We found that the use of the word 'donation' generated higher revenue than the use of 'contribution'. While the individuals receiving the...

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Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination : a hiring experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2020

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Betting on diversity : occupational segregation and gender stereotypes

Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2022

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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Matching workers

Moen, Espen R.; Yashiv, Eran - 2024

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Interview sequences and the formation of subjective assessments

Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2024

Interviewing is a decisive stage of most processes that match candidates to firms and organizations. This paper studies how and why a candidate's interview outcome depends on the other candidates interviewed by the same evaluator. We use large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring...

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Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination : a hiring experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2024

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...

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"Soft" affirmative action and minority recruitment

Fershtman, Daniel; Pavan, Alessandro - 2023

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Delegation and recruitment in organizations : the slippery slope to "bad" leadership

Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022

. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be …. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local markets over recruitment of competent candidates and local organizers … authoritarian and persistently "bad" leadership. Our model can be applied to other labor recruitment settings. …

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Management practices, workforce selection and productivity

Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016

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