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In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about … employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the older waiters, corresponded to the highest rates … ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. …
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Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination in hiring. A twenty … forty-seven, inquired about employment as waiters; women aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired about employment in … retail sales. The rate of net discrimination against the older graduate, and against the older waiters in their London …
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In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about … employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter …, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. Discrimination was higher in …
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discrimination in hiring. Two standard résumés were constructed for each occupation to control for all relevant supply …Pairs of carefully-matched, written applications were made to advertised job vacancies in England to test for sexual …-side variables, such as qualifications, experience and age. Consequently any differential response recorded can be attributed to …
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the macro employment effects of the federal Age Discrimination in … Employment Act as amended. The results indicate mixed effects on the legislation on older workers and workers of traditional … retirement age. …
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We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled … compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average. …
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We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled … compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average. …
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We sent nearly 9,000 fictitious resumes to advertisements for job openings in seven major cities in the United States across six occupational categories. We randomly assigned names to the resumes that convey race and gender but for which a strong socioeconomic connotation is not implicated. We...
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Increasing empirical research on productivity supports the use of statistical or ‘rational’ discrimination in hiring …. The practice is legal for features of job applicants not covered by human rights discrimination laws, such as being a … under existing philosophical accounts of wrongful discrimination. This paper argues that lawful statistical discrimination …
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evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …
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