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An experimental study of sex segregation in the Swedish labour market: is discrimination the explanation?
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008
This paper studies whether sex discrimination is the cause of sex segregation in the Swedish labour market. The … difference. The conclusion is that the sex segregation prevailing in the Swedish labour market cannot be explained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269271
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Between meritocracy and ethnic discrimination: the gender difference
Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - 2008
Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268621
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The impact of being monitored on discriminatory behavior among employers: evidence from a natural experiment
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2009
Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the right to conduct discrimination tests and to even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269199
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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269375
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Ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market: a field experiment
Kaas, Leo; Manger, Christian - 2010
This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271298
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Information and Racial Exclusion
Lundberg, Shelly; Startz, Richard - 2004
disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect … asymmetries. Minority groups necessarily suffer disproportionately from segregation, since the degree to which transactions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262133
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Gender and racial discrimination in hiring : a pseudo audit study for three selected occupations in metropolitan Lima
Moreno, Martin; Ñopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Maximo - 2004
In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261754
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The economics of discrimination: evidence from basketball
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268948
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Movin' on up: Hierarchical occupational segmentation and gender wage gaps
Shatnawi, Dina; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2012
endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest is the model of hierarchical segregation in … examine how standard wage specifications integrated with a model of hierarchical segregation might perform in wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290021
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Tipping and residential segregation: a unified schelling model
Zhang, Junfu - 2009
This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It … shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of … the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined, which is crucial for understanding the dynamics of segregation …
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