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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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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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, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …
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We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...
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Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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discrimination or implicit gender bias …
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This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace …. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are differentially remunerated because of their … research evidence on earnings discrimination as one source of earnings inequality within the workplace. The ability of …
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Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1,347 job applications for low-qualified front-desk jobs in Brno, Czech Republic....
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This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is … grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various …
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