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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea Maria; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
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Can we test for bias in scientific peer-review?
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008
fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study …
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The prostitute's allure: Examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination
Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010
commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
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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Costless discrimination and unequal achievements in a labour market experiment
Filippin, Antonio; Guala, Francesco - 2011
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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Diversity and public goods: A natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation
Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David - 2011
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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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
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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The enfranchisement of women and the welfare state
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2007
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women's disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...
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Work-life balance practices and the gender gap in job satisfaction in the UK: evidence from matched employer-employee data
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Fernández, Rosa M. - 2008
This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the paradox of the contented female worker. After establishing that females report higher levels of job satisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost...
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Women's liberation: what's in it for men?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
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