Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender women. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conduct a scenario experiment in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or cisgender female job candidates....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the association between firm size and hiring discrimination against women, ethnic minorities and older job candidates. Design/methodology/approach: The authors merge field experimental measures on unequal treatment with firm-level data. The...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test hypotheses regarding the importance of employee preferences in explaining sticky floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. Design/methodology/approach The authors use original data obtained...