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are accounted for, focusing on the role of low schooling, regional backwardness, and labour market discrimination. …
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This paper attempts to establish empirically whether natives' job satisfaction is adversely affected by having minority co-worker(s). The paper uses nationally representative linked employer-employee data and eight different facets of job satisfaction. Measuring minority co-worker status at the...
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Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against … immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...
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Using a lab experiment which simulates a labor market and does not use deception, we investigate racial discrimination … for employee selection. We find that discrimination against Blacks persists even when information about candidate … abilities is known. The experiment design allows us to observe within-subject variation in discrimination based on different …
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identity-based discrimination. We find that when principals use the sanctioning tools at their disposal in an outcome …
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bias, I estimated hukou-based earning discrimination by matching Chinese individuals based on a rich set of individual … self-employment and no labor contract conditions, discrimination exists only when others employ them and where a labor … contract condition is enforced. Moreover, they face discrimination only when they work for the Chinese government, not when …
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