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This paper investigates how an organization’s formal hierarchy affects the gender diversity in its applicant pool. One … in the workplace. However, we argue that flat hierarchies may reduce the gender diversity in the applicant pool because …, these flat structures may disproportionately attract female applicants and thus ameliorate gender inequality and segregation …
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experiment provides the following findings. (i) Male entrepreneurs have implicit gender discrimination against female investors …-skilled jobs for previous decades. This paper aims to explain this unique persistent gender gap in both the US venture capital … industry and the US entrepreneurial activities from the point of view of gender discrimination on both sides of a two …
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We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework … decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the …
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men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which …
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men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which …
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Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize three correspondence studies of the Swedish labor...
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strategies, a labor market experiment is conducted. Job applications of candidates, who are equivalent in their human capital but … that gender non-conformity is one of the reasons why lesbians are disliked, the applicants differ in their perceived gender … identity. While results show a strong negative effect for lesbian orientation, gender identity does not have a significant …
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tweet about racial justice. Racial justice tweets are more predictive of race-related political tweets than political …
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unobserved heterogeneity - in particular lesbians' violation of stereotypical female gender roles - might be responsible for … their higher earnings. To investigate whether discrimination against lesbians actually does exist, a labor market experiment … market outcomes, the applicants differ in their perceived gender identity. While results show a strong negative effect for …
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We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … randomly vary receivers' migration background and other attributes, including education, gender, and age. We find that …
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