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and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
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In this paper we use micro-level data on employers and employees to investigate whether Affirmative Action procedures lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our measures of qualifications include the educational...
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …
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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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We provide a test for statistical discrimination or rational stereotyping in in environments in which agents learn over … statistical discrimination on the basis of race. Our results support the hypothesis of statistical discrimination, although they … for the analysis of the determinants of wage growth and productivity and the analysis of statistical discrimination in the …
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We provide a test for statistical discrimination or rational stereotyping in in environments in which agents learn over … statistical discrimination on the basis of race. Our results support the hypothesis of statistical discrimination, although they … for the analysis of the determinants of wage growth and productivity and the analysis of statistical discrimination in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132896
If profit maximizing firms have limited information about the general productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure credential value of education will depend on how quickly...
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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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. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of “bridge” jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …
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