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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?

Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...

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The state of hiring discrimination : a meta-analysis of (almost) all recent correspondence experiments

Lippens, Louis; Vermeiren, Siel; Baert, Stijn - 2021

Notwithstanding the improved integration of various minority groups in the workforce, unequal treatment in hiring still hinders many individuals' access to the labour market. To tackle this inaccessibility, it is essential to know which and to what extent minority groups face hiring...

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Can AI bridge the gender gap in competitiveness?

Mourelatos, Evangelos; Zervas, Panagiotis; Lagios, Dimitris - 2024

This paper employs an online real-effort experiment to investigate gender disparities in the selection of individuals … of AI assistance. Surprisingly, the introduction of AI eliminates an 11-percentage-point gender gap, between men and … women in our competitive scenario. We also discuss how the gender gap in tournament entry appears to be contingent on …

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Contact vs. information : what shapes attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from an experiment in schools

Florio, Erminia - 2020

We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome. Half of the classes meet a refugee from Mauritania,...

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Hiring a homosexual, taking a risk? : a lab experiment on employment discrimination and risk aversion

Baert, Stijn - 2017

We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which...

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Women in engineering : the role of role models

Agurto Adrianzén, Marcos; Bazan, M.; Hari, S.; … - 2021

Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In … addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in …

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Stress, ethnicity, and prosocial behavior

Lowes, Sara; Haushofer, Johannes; Musau, Abednego; … - 2022

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Gender differences in effects of goal-setting : evidence from a fundraising field experiment

Wilhelm, Mark Ottoni; Smith, Sarah - 2023

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Gender and psychological pressure in competitive environments

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2021

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Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination : evidence from a choice experiment

Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Derous, Eva - 2021

Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour...

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