Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy …

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 …

According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for … discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should … therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination. We look at the natural experiment represented by the Brazilian trade …

. Discrimination exhibits little geographical dispersion, but two digit industry explains roughly half of the cross-firm variation in … quintile of racial discrimination responsible for nearly half of lost contacts to Black applicants in the experiment … findings establish that systemic illegal discrimination is concentrated among a select set of large employers, many of which …

antidiscrimination law across a variety of contexts including discrimination in labor markets, housing markets, consumer purchases, and … policing. The different models of discrimination based on animus, statistical discrimination, and cartel exploitation are … analyzed for both race and sex discrimination. I explore the theoretical arguments for prohibiting private discriminatory …

This paper studies the effect of employee job selection in a model of statistical discrimination in a competitive … group suffer from discrimination turn out to be surprisingly strong. In general it is quite possible that for certain jobs … the discrimination can favor the group that is, on average, worse qualified, while for other jobs it favors the group that …

discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise … applicants living in slums received nearly 28 percent fewer callbacks than other applicants. We observe discrimination across … jobs that require a university degree, with discrimination being concentrated in administrative and software …

Dimensions of Discrimination -- Insights from Social Psychology -- Intersectionality and Discrimination … -- Methodological Approaches to Understanding Discrimination: Decomposition Methods -- Methodological Approaches to Understanding … Discrimination: Field Experiments. …

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …