Using Integrated Household Survey data from Georgia, we measure the observable and discriminatory ethnic wage gap, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the...

When can you cheat some people without damaging your reputation among others? In a trust game between a firm and a series of individuals from two groups of different sizes, the firm has more incentive to cheat minority individuals because trade with the minority is less frequent and the...

In City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. the Supreme Court limited the ability of governments to use affirmative action to remedy what might be termed quot;no faultquot; discrimination - that is, discrimination in which those who have been harmed have no remedy under antidiscrimination law, either...

This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is small or competition is weak, the policy removes job...

This paper offers a new representation of discrimination on the job market based on the most recent findings in the socio-psychological academic literature about human behavior. Put it simply, it is assumed that the agents prefer working with people like themselves. This affinity principle is...

We explore the importance of appearance in group formation using a series of experiments with a non-student population of mixed racial heritage. In order to test for discrimination, we ask subjects to choose partners. We manipulate the amount of payoff-relevant information on behavior, thereby...

I present a statistical discrimination model of the labor market in which employers endogenously learn about the productivity of worker groups through their hiring. Previous hiring experiences with groups shape subsequent incentives of profit-maximizing employers to hire from these groups again...

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two mechanisms: a statistical discrimination mechanism linked to a stereotype belief in which women engage in child-rearing activities while men do not and a self-selection mechanism...

Sharing economy services enable flexible access to under-used assets. However, the selection process of such services can swiftly transition into a mechanism of discrimination. Previous research has found evidence for discrimination and noted a tension between the principles of freedom of choice...

Based on a correspondence study conducted in France, we show that fictitious low-skilled applicants in the private sector are half as likely to be called back by the employers when they are of North African rather than French origin. By contrast, the origin of the fictitious applicants does not...