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Diversity and discrimination in the classroom
Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - 2024
-based discrimination, both of which are costly and lead to lower payouts. In contrast, accurate statistical discrimination is ruled out by …
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Discrimination in promotion
Prummer, Anja - 2020
explanation for this pattern, namely preference- and belief-free discrimination. In our setting, an employer can increase effort … discrimination between workers optimal. …
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Job market discrimination against slum dwellers in urban Argentina
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Acevedo, Paloma; Hernández, Hugo - 2022
discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise … applicants living in slums received nearly 28 percent fewer callbacks than other applicants. We observe discrimination across … jobs that require a university degree, with discrimination being concentrated in administrative and software …
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Measuring racial bias in employment services in Colombia
Duryea, Suzanne; Millán-Quijano, Jaime; Morrison, Judith; … - 2024
In this paper, we document de facto, implicit, and explicit racial biases within the public employment service in Colombia. By combining administrative data about job seekers and job openings with direct surveys to job counselors, including a Race Implicit Association Test, we compute different...
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Discrimination of immigrants in mortgage pricing and approval : evidence from Italy
Mistrulli, Paolo Emilio; Uddin, Md Taslim; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2023
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Ban the box, criminal records, and statistical discrimination : a field experiment
Agan, Amanda; Starr, Sonja - 2016
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Discrimination and skill differences in an equilibrium search model
Bowlus, Audra J.; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 1998
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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
In the light of Trinidad and Tobago’s colonial history, its labour market is characterized by two about equal sized majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay...
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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America
Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023
This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...
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Gender and racial differences in the earnings penalty of working from home before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Maia, Alexandre Gori; Lu, Yao - 2024
We investigate differences in earnings penalties associated with working from home (WFH) between groups of gender and race before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Using a large and nationally representative longitudinal dataset, we show that the earnings penalty associated with WFH...
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