Advocates of the war against discrimination and affirmative action claim it is necessary to set up additional … there is no set definition of a minority who suffered from discrimination in the past (Historically Excluded Groups [HEGs … authorities) as well as the behavior of bureaucrats who have the authority to defend people against discrimination. Incentives and …

The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe—as well as one of the most disadvantaged. A triple vicious circle is … to ill-chosen policies; and segmentation is perpetuated through (statistical) discrimination. A severe lack of data …

attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered … most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination …

We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy. …

Results from two field experiments which were designed to identify possible ethnic discrimination on a German internet … online markets. The evidence is rather mixed with respect to ethnic discrimination, and it does not support the signaling …

We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and a lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … selection decisions. We model how knowledge of ethnicity influences allocation of attention to available information about an … effect is opposite when most applicants are accepted. We test for such “attention discrimination” in two field experiments …

Discrimination in the housing market may create large economic inefficiencies and unfair individual outcomes, but is … methodology in order to facilitate a test of to what extent the measured degree of discrimination depends on applicant, landlord … gender, ethnicity, age, and employment status in the Swedish rental market for apartments. Our results confirm the existence …