This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … segregation. However, levels of discrimination differ considerably among occupations, varying from no evidence of disability …

-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish … generation immigrants with both parents born in Southern Europe or outside Europe. However, when using a regular set of control … is a bad measure of productive skills for these groups of second-generation immigrants. It indicates that they compensate …

This is the first study providing evidence of a new form of discrimination, implicit discrimination, acting in real … results indicate that implicit discrimination acts differently compared to explicit discrimination and that it is an important …

discrimination is only responsible for less than one sixth of the native-immigrant unemployment gap. We extend previous analyses …We present experimental evidence for recruitment discrimination against men with an Arabic sounding name. Our results …

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the … being invited to an interview between natives and immigrants, while having foreign qualifications only explains the … remaining 23 per cent. This in turn, suggests a lower bound for statistical discrimination of approximately 23 per cent of total …

This paper studies whether sex discrimination is the cause of sex segregation in the Swedish labour market. The … discrimination in hiring. Instead, the explanation must be found on the supply side …

discrimination. A few studies have used field experiments to show that obese job applicants are, in fact, discriminated against in … the hiring process. However, whether overweight job applicants also face employer discrimination is still an open question …

contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …