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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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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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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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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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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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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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investigate how numerous variables relate to preferences for egalitarian gender norms in rural Bangladesh. …
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of the sexual and gender gap in political leadership ambition: women's and homosexuals' higher aversion to engage to … gender behavioral differences, stemming from differences in underlying psychological abilities and differences due to the …' interest, hence significantly increasing the gender and sexual gap in leadership ambition. While on the online experiment the …
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orientation or the gender of the applicants, led to the observation that females and gay men faced a significantly lower chance of … that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender does exist also in online labor markets. Contributions to the …
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Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies duration dependence in Germany, with a particular emphasis on company and vacancy characteristics as potential determinants. The experiment reveals that duration dependence...
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