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The timing of preference and prejudice in sequential hiring games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - 2014
an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404030
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Bias and discrimination: what do we know?
Della Giusta, Marina; Bosworth, Steven - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389877
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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024
-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062106
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Rhetoric in economic research: The case of gender wage differentials
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further research efforts. What determines whether results are discussed in a neutral or a judgmental way? How convincing must results be so that authors call for significant policy changes?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292771
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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about discrimination, whether and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294572
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Are Asian Migrants Discriminated Against in the Labour Market? : A Case Study of Australia
Paul, Satya; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Yasmeen, Wahida - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261915
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Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs
Vartiainen, Juhana; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2004
This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different complexity using panel data on Finnish metalworkers. These data provide a measure for the complexity of the workers' tasks that can be used to construct a complexity ladder of jobs. We study whether women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261929
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369214
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Detecting discrimination in Audit and correspondence studies
Neumark, David - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154577
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Rhetoric in economic research : the case of gender wage differentials
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about "discrimination", whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009749612