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drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use … perceptions. Adoption of pro-testing legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7-30% and relative wages by 1 …
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This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment … employment position of the main ethnic minority groups changed between the two Census dates and secondly, a detailed examination … of employment amongst ethnic groups in 2001. In relative terms, it is found that there was an improvement in the …
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In labor markets where disadvantaged students are discriminated against, meritbased college scholarships targeting these students could convey two opposing signals to employers. There is a positive signal reflecting the candidate's cognitive ability (talented in high-school and able to maintain...
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We show that increasing the intensity of product market competition can reduce discrimination against female managers …, even in an environment in which all employers have a preference for discrimination. The reason is that due to the glass …
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providing insight into the presence of mistake-based discrimination. Specifically if female-headed firms were systematically …
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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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In many developed countries, racial and ethnic minorities are paid, on average, less than the native white majority. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and further generations. Eliminating racial wage...
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discriminate against them. The wage discrimination in high-diversity firms could be alleviated through a stronger presence of …
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