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Discrimination in the rental market for apartments
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - In: Journal of housing economics 23 (2014), pp. 41-54
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The Labor Market Consequences of Gender Differences in Job Search
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008
This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...
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Discrimination in the rental market for apartments
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - In: Journal of Housing Economics 23 (2014) C, pp. 41-54
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 … of widespread discrimination against some of the groups, but also show that the degree of discrimination varies …
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What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process
Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012
, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …, should reflect statistical discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818783
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What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process
Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …, should reflect statistical discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818878
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The Labor Market Consequences of Gender Differences in Job Search
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - In: Journal of Labor Research 33 (2012) 3, pp. 303-327
This paper uses data from an Internet-based CV database to investigate if women are more restrictive than men in their choice of search area, and if this is of importance in the early stages of the hiring process. We show that women are less likely to search in the metropolitan areas or far away...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010994227
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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: evidence from an Internet-based search channel
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - In: Empirical Economics 43 (2012) 2, pp. 537-563
discrimination studies. We find that searchers who have non-Nordic names, are unemployed or old get significantly fewer firm contacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010994452
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What is the Right Profile for Getting a Job? A Stated Choice Experiment of the Recruitment Process
Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …, should reflect statistical discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556212
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What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process
Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - 2012
, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …, should reflect statistical discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284001
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The effect of age and gender on labor demand - evidence from a field experiment
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2017
gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance … decline is steeper for women than for men. These results indicate that age discrimination is a widespread phenomenon affecting … discrimination against women on average, but the gender effect is heterogeneous across occupations and firms. Women have a higher …
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