How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond … whether fixed traits such as country of birth or gender are more consequential. We find no evidence that immigrants can affect …

used by politicians as a political strategy to maintain power. In the process of using ethnicity, class solidarity is … in-group thus diminishing class solidarity that one may expect to occur between workmates. JEL Categories: Z13 N37, O15 …

Indian women, we investigate how this link varies by their class and socio-religious identities. Treating women's employment …Intimate partner violence is a serious form of unfreedom inflicted on women across the world. How does the incidence of … such violence vary with women's workforce participation - a factor that is supposed to enhance their economic well …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …

discrimination against women on average, but the gender effect is heterogeneous across occupations and firms. Women have a higher …In most countries, there are systematic age and gender differences in labor market outcomes. Older workers and women … gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance …

neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related factors such as ethnicity and gender. By looking at both channels together …) lenders have a statistically significant preference for borrowers with whom they share gender and ethnic similarity even after …

two applicants differ with respect to characteristics such as gender, age, education, experience, ethnicity, religious …, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …

This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide … momentum in changing the relatively poor state of mental health care in India. …

experienced by girls and Scheduled Caste Hindu children. A gender gap still appears within as well as between communities, though … attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socioeconomic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …