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. …

understand bias and discrimination as mechanisms and potential points of intervention. …

statistical discrimination. The results suggest the existence of no significant differences in hiring rates for different gender …

This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … significant ?unexplained differences? for males that may be ascribed to ?discrimination? against Asian migrants. However, the …

, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level … discrimination helps determine the present pattern of job sorting, current discrimination cannot explain the relationship between … wages and racial density. Current discrimination reflected in racial wage gaps occurs within occupations or across …

disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect …

Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important … cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor …. Together these results point to the subtle but systematic forms of discrimination that continue to shape employment …

The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for … the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination …-assignment discrimination depends upon racial productivity differences, the productivity x prejudice interaction, technology, relative labor …

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 …