, which makes this a distinguished result from other studies. Moreover, contrary to the gap in gender, which is due to the … compensation characteristics of individuals only (discrimination), income differentials between regions and races also occur from …

distinguish between taste-based discrimination where employers' racial animus is the key motivation for their poor treatment of … minorities and variants of statistical discrimination where there is no assumption at all of racial animus on the part of the … them: Consistent with statistical discrimination theory, minority referrals are more likely to receive a job offer than non …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …

-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …

; gender ; employment discrimination ; skin tone ; panel data … measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin … year panel data. We find that the expansion of employment for women is concentrated in the services occupations. -- race …

discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample …Using a unique data set, this paper first documents that gaps in starting wages by race and sex persist after … accounting for performance on the job. Evidence suggests that simple statistical discrimination, and not just taste …

Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects … the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender …' and authors' gender. With substantial research showing gender differences in fairness, the results suggest that an ethos …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …