fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study …

commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal … commercial sex sector provides the cleanest test for whether the beauty premium is driven solely by productivity. Somewhat …

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 …

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 …

differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to …Gender wage differentials, conditional on observed productivity characteristics, have been considered a possible … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …

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 …

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market … effect of attractiveness within occupations in order to provide more evidence on its productivity-enhancing channel of …

characteristics. In this paper, we use a decade of annual wage and productivity data from New Zealand's Linked Employer … explains less than one-fifth of the overall wage gap. Gender differences in productivity within firms also explain little of … the difference seen in wages. The relationships between the gender wage-productivity gap and both age and tenure are …