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an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …
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The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting...
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-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against … immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …
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We show that increasing the intensity of product market competition can reduce discrimination against female managers …, even in an environment in which all employers have a preference for discrimination. The reason is that due to the glass …
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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...
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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 …
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productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about "discrimination", whether …
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findings. -- rhetoric ; gender wage differential ; discrimination …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against … immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529088