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discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically defined as discrimination in a legal sense … - what we label total discrimination in the current study -, although it cannot separate between preferences and statistical … discrimination. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) convincingly show that audit and correspondence studies can obtain biased …
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Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory … practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417387
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which … includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act … upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative …
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The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic...
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Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory … practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in … hiring and provide hard facts for policies, and it has provided evidence of discrimination in hiring across almost all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252935
This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … segregation. However, levels of discrimination differ considerably among occupations, varying from no evidence of disability …
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discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically defined as discrimination in a legal sense … - what we label total discrimination in the current study -, although it cannot separate between preferences and statistical … discrimination. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) convincingly show that audit and correspondence studies can obtain biased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329111
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which … includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act … upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586015
-Muslims, an ethnic minority group subjected to substantial labor market discrimination in Sweden, and more specifically ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269175
-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish …
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