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We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …
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discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … time on younger black resumes, suggesting they use negative heuristics or taste-based discrimination. Screeners demonstrate … levels-based statistical discrimination, believing that younger black applicants have worse computer skills and more gaps in …
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Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...
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A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination …, including higher rates of depression and anxiety, suicidality, and PTSD. Therefore, understanding the role of discrimination in …-binary people face discrimination in mental healthcare markets. We provide the first experimental evidence, using an audit study, of …
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …
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differences. We argue that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap, in …
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Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …
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This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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In 2004, the Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters whom had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to identify and punish these voters. We match the list of petition signers distributed by the government to...
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's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … discrimination literature. Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the …
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