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Race, Gender and Beauty : The Effect of Information Provision on Online Hiring Biases
Leung, Weiwen - 2020
We conduct a study of hiring bias on a simulation platform where we ask Amazon MTurk participants to make hiring decisions for a mathematically intensive task. Our findings suggest hiring biases against Black workers and less attractive workers, and preferences towards Asian workers, female...
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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America
Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023
This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily … measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two additional measures from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540625
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The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black, and White Women
Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - 2008
This analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates that young Mexican women and young black women earned, respectively, 9.5% and 13.2% less than young white women in 1994. Differences in education appear to be the most important explanation for the Mexican-white wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103943
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The timing of preference and prejudice in sequential hiring games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - 2014
We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and characterize how one agent's private valuation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404030
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Racial wage differentials in developed countries : the variation of racial wage gaps across and within groups requires differing policy solutions
Longhi, Simonetta - 2017
In many developed countries, racial and ethnic minorities are paid, on average, less than the native white majority. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and further generations. Eliminating racial wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658618
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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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Layoffs, lemons, race and gender
Hu, Luojia (contributor); Taber, Christopher (contributor) - 2005
layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003184148
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
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/10012783873
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Race and Employment Outcomes : Evidence from NBA Coaches
Hill, Nicholas - 2020
more diverse hires. We study the impact of management diversity on employment outcomes using rich data on NBA head coaches … that includes information on the race of each coach and his supervisor. The data allows us to analyze how race affects … received. We find evidence that a supervisor is more likely to hire a coach of his own race. We also find that black coaches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853619
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Race and Hedge Funds
Lu, Yan; Naik, Narayan Y.; Teo, Melvyn - 2022
We find that minority operated funds deliver higher alphas, Sharpe ratios, and information ratios than do non-minority operated funds. Moreover, minority fund managers attended more selective schools, worked at higher status investment banks, and are more likely to hold post-graduate degrees....
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