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If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …
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in the context of the discussions of discrimination in his textbook, Economics, and his interactions with female students …: Samuelson recognized very early that women were held back by discrimination and wrote about it with a depth not seen in other …
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Refugees in Germany perceive discrimination due to their country of origin in various life dimensions, which can … perceive discrimination on the labor market, at educational institutions, on the housing market, with public authorities, and … in daily life. The results show that perceived discrimination increased in all observed dimensions between 2019 and 2020 …
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Joseph Fishkin’s new book, Bottlenecks, reinvigorates the concept of equal opportunity by simultaneously engaging with its complications and attempting to simplify its ambitions. Fishkin describes bottlenecks as narrow spaces in the opportunity structure through which people must pass if they...
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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense...
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
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Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer's perspective, in their fertile age they are also at "risk" of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a large-scale correspondence test in...
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