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How to reduce discrimination? : evidence from a field experiment in amateur soccer
Dur, Robert A. J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022 - This version: 17 January 2022
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 with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...
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Unequal chances on a flexible labor market, the case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert; Veenman, Justus - 2008
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Unequal chances on a flexible labor market : the case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert; Veenman, Justus - 2008
Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...
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Discrimination and skill differences in an equilibrium search model
Bowlus, Audra J.; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 1998 - Current Version: August 1998
In this paper we analyze an equilibrium search model with threesources for wage andunemployment differentials among workers with the same (observed)human capital but different appearance (race): unobservedproductivity (skill), search intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an...
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Discrimination and skill differences in an equilibrium search model
Bowlus, Audra J.; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 1998 - Current vers
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Ethnic employment gaps of graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western...
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An algorithm for computing the nucleolus of disjunctive additive games with an acyclic permission structure
Brink, René van den; Katsev, Ilya; Laan, Gerard van der - 2008
-called peer group games being non-negative additive games on a permission tree. We provide a polynomial time algorithm for …
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Artificial collusion : examining supracompetitive pricing by Q-learning algorithms
Boer, Arnoud V. den; Meylahn, Janusz M.; Schinkel, … - 2022
We examine recent claims that a particular Q-learning algorithm used by competitors 'autonomously' and systematically … detailed analysis of the inner workings of this algorithm reveals that there is no immediate reason for alarm. We set out what … is needed to demonstrate the existence of a colluding price algorithm that does form a threat to competition. …
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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter; Zenou, Yves - 2008
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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter; Zenou, Yves - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
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