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Economic and Statistical Analysis of Discrimination in Hiring
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1983
this paper is to review what economic theory suggests affects availability and to analyze the extent to which these factors …
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Shocking Offers : Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets
Archibong, Belinda; Henry, Peter Blair - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs, and (b) the response of (a) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female, offer lower starting salaries than jobs in industries where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528404
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Ban-the-Box Laws : Fair and Effective?
Kaestner, Robert; Wang, Xufei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Ban-the-box (BTB) laws are a widely used public policy rooted in employment law related to unnecessarily exclusionary hiring practices. BTB laws are intended to improve the employment opportunities of those with criminal backgrounds by giving them a fair chance during the hiring process. Prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512127
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A Delegation Approach to Regulating Hiring Discrimination
Martellini, Paolo; Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We approach the design of anti-discriminatory labor market regulation as a delegation problem. A private firm (the agent) is repeatedly faced with the opportunity of hiring one among several applicants to fill its vacancies. The firm is biased against applicants from some demographic group, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468218
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Do Female–Owned Employment Agencies Mitigate Discrimination and Expand Opportunity for Women?
Hunt, Jennifer; Moehling, Carolyn M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
female jobseekers, female proprietors may have sought to mitigate employer discrimination against female jobseekers; their … women may also reflect discrimination mitigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528422
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Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified? Evidence from Employer-Employee Data on New Hires
Holzer, Harry - 1996
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473242
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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the Evidence
Neumark, David - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456397
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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier : Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460536
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Complementary Bias : A Model of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination
Craig, Ashley C. - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453900
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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Altonji, Joseph G. - 1997
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/10012472533