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discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically defined as discrimination in a legal sense … - what we label total discrimination in the current study -, although it cannot separate between preferences and statistical … discrimination. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) convincingly show that audit and correspondence studies can obtain biased …
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discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically defined as discrimination in a legal sense … - what we label total discrimination in the current study -, although it cannot separate between preferences and statistical … discrimination. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) convincingly show that audit and correspondence studies can obtain biased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329111
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which … includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act … upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative …
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The question of whether and how living in a deprived neighborhood affects the labor market outcomes of its residents has been a subject of great interest for both policy makers and researchers. Despite this interest, empirical evidence of causal neighborhood effects on labor market outcomes is...
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Using the Implicit Association Test, we investigate whether employers and students possess implicit and explicit negative attitudes and implicit performance stereotypes toward Arab-Muslim men relative to native Swedish men. We also examine if employers and students have implicit and explicit...
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Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which … includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act … upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372435
The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117833
The question of whether and how living in a deprived neighborhood affects the labor market outcomes of its residents has been a subject of great interest for both policy makers and researchers. Despite this interest, empirical evidence of causal neighborhood effects on labor market outcomes is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795149
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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This is the first study providing evidence of a new form of discrimination, implicit discrimination, acting in real … results indicate that implicit discrimination acts differently compared to explicit discrimination and that it is an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703697