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constraints for blue-collar jobs than white-collar/pink-collar jobs, and that women face greater age discrimination than men … for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two … written commitments to equal opportunities. The design of the study suggests that discrimination results from distaste for …
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an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …
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By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …
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more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …
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The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
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This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
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Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were … surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were … made no significant improvement to minority applicant outcomes. Clear evidence of statistical discrimination was found only …
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The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting...
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understand bias and discrimination as mechanisms and potential points of intervention. …
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