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Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were … surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were … made no significant improvement to minority applicant outcomes. Clear evidence of statistical discrimination was found only …
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Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were … surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were … made no significant improvement to minority applicant outcomes. Clear evidence of statistical discrimination was found only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044710
toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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We design a new field experiment to test pro-social behaviour: will a household return a letter that has been incorrectly addressed? On average, we find that half of all letters were returned. Return rates do not vary significantly according to the gender, race or ethnicity of the fictitious...
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suggest that employers do contribute to this type of segregation. While ethnic discrimination is pervasive in the 'native …
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While hiring discrimination against disabled candidates is widely documented, the reasons for such discrimination and … assistants in the UK. Consistent with discrimination, we find a 5.6 percentage point (15%) gap in the employer callback rate …. Productivity signals designed to reduce statistical discrimination, including the offer of a positive reference from a previous …
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This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the … pairs. When applying this design to the Belgium case, we find that age discrimination is fundamentally heterogeneous by …
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This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from …
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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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