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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...
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Collaboration, alphabetical order and gender discrimination - evidence from the lab
Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2020
If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213010
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'I Occasionally Learn Something' : Paul Samuelson, Gender Bias and Discrimination Before 1973
Backhouse, Roger - 2018
in the context of the discussions of discrimination in his textbook, Economics, and his interactions with female students …: Samuelson recognized very early that women were held back by discrimination and wrote about it with a depth not seen in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915697
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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature
Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413089
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What happens when employers can no longer discriminate in job ads?
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing - 2021
When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602976
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698191
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Is my wage fair? : validating fairness perceptions among women and men
Diehl, Claudia; Lang, Julia; Strauß, Susanne; … - 2024
paradox"), and on perceived discrimination among ethnic minorities ("integration paradox"). Empirically, we depart from … employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014633879
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Collaboration, alphabetical order and gender discrimination: Evidence from the lab
Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2019
If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058703
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Collaboration, alphabetical order and gender discrimination : evidence from the lab
Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2019
If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001812
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Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380999