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attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …
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objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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estimated premium for above average beauty is only slightly larger than that estimated for women elsewhere, and the penalty for … commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …
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-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in … job promotion ladder: Few rounds of moderate discrimination virtually eliminate females in higher positions …
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We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …
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The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic...
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This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
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current results indicate that discrimination against sexual orientation minorities in the Cypriot labour market is a matter of … disentangle statistical from taste-based discrimination in the labour market …
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital … market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and empirical evidence, that discrimination affects wages … and employment in labor markets. However, the effects of discrimination against minority labor on transactions in markets …
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