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Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
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There is a growing interest in economics in the role played by personality in explaining labour market behaviour. Research to date points to the Big-5 personality traits being a possible determinant of wages and employment. However, most of this research is based on the assumption that...
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discriminate against them. The wage discrimination in high-diversity firms could be alleviated through a stronger presence of …
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remains unexplained, which may imply some form of discrimination (pure or statistical) against immigrants with non …
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statistical discrimination. The results suggest the existence of no significant differences in hiring rates for different gender …
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This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … significant ?unexplained differences? for males that may be ascribed to ?discrimination? against Asian migrants. However, the …
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This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different complexity using panel data on Finnish metalworkers. These data provide a measure for the complexity of the workers' tasks that can be used to construct a complexity ladder of jobs. We study whether women...
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, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level … discrimination helps determine the present pattern of job sorting, current discrimination cannot explain the relationship between … wages and racial density. Current discrimination reflected in racial wage gaps occurs within occupations or across …
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disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect …
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