We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

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 …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and …

that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …

performance measures does not reduce the gender gap. Our second experiment removed video interaction, and compared blind to non …-blind evaluations. No gender gap is present in either case. These results rule out traditional economic models of discrimination … administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

stop (give way) for others, we find evidence of (i) gender discrimination by both men and women, with women discriminating …

cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor …Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important … market of New York City. The experiment recruited white, black, and Latino job applicants, called testers, who were matched …

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … (a more established migrant group) suffering less discrimination than Chinese and Middle Easterners (who have typically …