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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2020

Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in … the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different …, either due to bad luck (discrimination), low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Higher fairness perceptions …

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Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination – Evidence from the Lab

Wiborg, Vegard S. - 2020

If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before choosing whom to hire, they receive information...

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Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion

Baert, Stijn - 2015

hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test …

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Gender and the Labor Market : What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala - 2014

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...

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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes : An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

The population of most developed societies is graying. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these labor-force...

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Selecting Names for Experiments on Ethnic Discrimination

Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Van Borm, Hannah - 2022

In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the names used for ethnic minorities in various...

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Culture as a Hiring Criterion : Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process

Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021

workers, we test whether women and men with the same civil service examination score exhibit similar performance in a job …

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Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination

Albrecht, Konstanze - 2011

In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of individuals. Individuals from on average worse performing groups receive lower evaluations, even if they are known to perform equally well as individuals from better performing...

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Religion, Discrimination and Trust

Chuah, Swee-Hoon - 2016

turn induce taste-based discrimination. Religiosity may also relate to general prejudice. We test these hypotheses across …

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Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference

Oxoby, Robert J. - 2007

Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper explores occupational choices when individuals receive imprecise signals regarding ability and use the...

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