side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate … find that aggregate surplus decreases when risk aversion is high. When risk aversion is low however, discrimination …

This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to … employees expect to be favored. The manager, who has no taste for discrimination, discriminates in order to avoid demotivating …

We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two …-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade … trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism, reduces the matching probability and output in the skilled …

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known …, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together … discrimination. …