How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond … efforts to reduce discrimination must address employer prejudice. …

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

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 …

' ease in finding information affect race and gender discrimination in car retailing. Using a large dataset of transaction … prices for new automobiles, the first part of the paper analyzes the relationship between car prices and demographics. We … statistical race discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use …

; displaced workers ; racial and gender wage gap ; discrimination ; heterogeneous human capital …