accounting for performance on the job. Evidence suggests that simple statistical discrimination, and not just taste … discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample … is higher than men's, simple statistical discrimination cannot explain the sex gap. In more complex models of statistical …

We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to … reduce or eliminate discrimination. Specifically, we use plant- and firm-level data to examine the relationships between … sex discrimination in wages in the short run in markets where plants have product market power. We also examine evidence …

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …