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When Is Discrimination Unfair?
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Osaki, Trevor T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using a vignette-based survey experiment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, we measure how people's assessments of the fairness of race-based hiring decisions vary with the motivation and circumstances surrounding the discriminatory act and the races of the parties involved. Regardless of their...
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Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity
Card, David E.; Colella, Fabrizio; Lalive, Rafael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In spring 2005, Austria launched a campaign to inform employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job … advertisements were illegal. At the time over 40% of openings on the nation's largest job-board specified a preferred gender. Over … how the elimination of gender preferences affected hiring and job outcomes. Prior to the campaign, most stated preferences …
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Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America's Tech Sector
Del Carpio, Lucía; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language … similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …
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Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems : Auditing the Algorithms
Zhang, Shuo - 2024
differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their … more stereotypically female content than men's. Using our experimental design, we can conclude that these gender gaps are … generated primarily by content-based matching algorithms that use the worker's declared gender as a direct input. Action …
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The Effects of Letters of Recommendation in the Youth Labor Market
Heller, Sara B.; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Youth employment has been near historic lows in recent years, and racial gaps persist. This paper tests whether information frictions limit young people's labor market success with a field experiment involving over 43,000 youth in New York City. We build software that allows employers to quickly...
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Tax Planning Knowledge Diffusion via the Labor Market
Barrios, John M.; Gallemore, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the extent to which the labor market facilitates the diffusion of tax planning knowledge across firms. Using a novel dataset of tax department employee movements between S&P 1500 firms, we find that firms experience an increase in their tax planning after hiring a tax employee from a...
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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market : An Experimental Study
Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2014
We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institutions to fictitious resumes and apply to real vacancy postings for business and health jobs on a large online job board. We find that a business...
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Who Benefits from Meritocracy?
Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Does screening applicants using exams help or hurt the chances of lower-SES candidates? Because individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds fare, on average, worse than those from richer backgrounds in standardized tests, a common concern with this "meritocratic" approach is that it might...
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Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Chetty, Raj; Deming, David J.; Friedman, John N - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges -- which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families -- increase the socioeconomic diversity of America's leaders by...
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Surviving the Fintech Disruption
Jiang, Wei; Tang, Yuehua; Xiao, Jiqiu; Yao, Wenxiong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies how demand for labor reacts to financial technology (fintech) shocks based on comprehensive databases of fintech patents and firm job postings in the U.S. during the past decade. We first develop a measure of fintech exposure at the occupation level by intersecting the textual...
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