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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...
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Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea …
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results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration background, it is most pronounced for applicants with … an African, i.e. Nigerian, background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a battery of firm and job specific … explain the actual level of discrimination. Discrimination in Austria therefore seems to be a general phenomenon driven by …
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attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …
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variation in discriminatory hiring choices contributes to the maintenance of such immigrant niches by channeling immigrants and … suggest that employers do contribute to this type of segregation. While ethnic discrimination is pervasive in the 'native … are disproportionately channeled into such niches. We conclude that variation in discriminatory employer hiring choices …
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the paper it is shown that discrimination based on employment status is an equilibrium hiring strategy even when the firm …This paper considers the optimal hiring strategy of a firm that is unable to observe the productive abilities of all … be optimal to avoid hiring workers that have certain characteristics; i.e. to use a discriminatory hiring strategy. In …
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We study how the presence of promotion competition in the labor market affects household specialization patterns. By embedding a promotion tournament model in a household setting, we show that specialization can emerge as a consequence of competitive work incentives. This specialization outcome,...
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This paper proposes a novel approach that has the potential to hasten the eradication of gender disparities in employment. This approach relies upon the concept of statistical process control (SPC) to more systematically remedy disparate employment outcomes for women. SPC also serves as a new...
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This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide at least partial answers to these questions, based on a meta-analysis of existing research. Given the complexity of the subject, this paper is meant to serve more as a framing...
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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