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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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 …

Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …

This paper investigates supply-side discrimination in the labor market for Boston taxi drivers. Using data on millions … drivers discriminate and find that this discrimination is primarily statistical rather than taste-based. As drivers gain … experience and learn to better anticipate wage variation, discrimination decreases. …

suggest that employers do contribute to this type of segregation. While ethnic discrimination is pervasive in the 'native …

-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …