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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants' aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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The gender gap in risk-taking is often used to explain differences in labor market outcomes. Some studies, however …, suggest that this gender gap does not extend to professional contexts. This paper examines potential drivers of the gender gap … posits that individuals form multiple identities that moderate behavior across contexts. In an online field experiment with …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472903
This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …
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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants’ aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244324
gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance … of demand effects by analyzing whether employers use information about a job applicant’s age and gender in their hiring … decisions. To do this, we conducted a field experiment, where over 6,000 fictitious resumes with randomly assigned information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697383
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054601
experiment in which approximately 2,000 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … discrimination in distinct ways within particular contexts, which we relate to intersectional stereotyping and norms of gender …
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Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However … of discrimination in America, 1993), namely the bias in their results in case of group differences in the variance of … unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender …
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