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How many correspondence tests are enough to detect discrimination among single agents? : a longitudinal study on the Belgian real estate market
Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul; Van der Bracht, Koen - 2020
Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291155
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Awareness reduces racial bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250030
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Race, Network Hiring, and Statistical Discrimination
Fernandez, Roberto M.; Greenberg, Jason - 2014
distinguish between taste-based discrimination where employers' racial animus is the key motivation for their poor treatment of … minorities and variants of statistical discrimination where there is no assumption at all of racial animus on the part of the … them: Consistent with statistical discrimination theory, minority referrals are more likely to receive a job offer than non …
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Does job security hamper employment prospects?
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Skedinger, Per - 2018
We investigate the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on the propensity to hire workers from unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only. Using administrative data from Sweden, we find that less...
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An empirical test of reder competition and specific human capital against standard wage competition
Ludsteck, Johannes; Haupt, Harry - 2007 - Revision : 6.0
A firm that faces insufficient supply of labor can either increase the wage offer to attract more applicants, or reduce the hiring standard to enlarge the pool of potential employees, or do both. This simultaneous adjustment of wages and hiring standards has been emphasized in a classical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951380
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Bounds of unfair inequality of opportunity : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
Previous estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) are lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed characteristics beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. Knowing the true size of unfair IOp, however, is important for the acceptance of (some) inequality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535094
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Nineteenth century biological conditions on the high central plains
Carson, Scott A. - 2012
Little work has been done on the biological conditions for the US Central Plains. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological conditions improved as Nebraska's output market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535112
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Productivity, wages, and marriage : the case of major league baseball
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2011
Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871-2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterparts holding all else equal (the "marriage premium"). Baseball is a unique case study because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306323
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Fat chance! : obesity and the transition from unemployment to employment
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011
This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … possible form of labor market discrimination is obese women. Despite making more job applications and engaging more in job … ; discrimination ; employment ; labor demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309512
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Estimating Hispanic-white wage gaps among women : the importance of controlling for cost of living
McHenry, Peter; McInerney, Melissa - 2015
Despite concern regarding labor market discrimination against Hispanics, previously published estimates show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399554