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Is it sex or personality? : the impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
This paper investigates whether differential treatment of men and women in the labor market is due to unobservable differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex-discrimination typically control for human capital (formal education,...
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Gender Discrimination in Competitive Markets
Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2022
We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female workers are equally productive, but the female workers are deliberately paid less than the male due to subjective discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973),...
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Is it sex or personality? : The impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
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Female migration : a way out of discrimination?
Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015
In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...
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How the Publish-or-Perish Principle Divides a Science : The Case of Academic Economists
van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2020
funds, teaching, administration) is associated with different attitudes towards science and the workplace among economists … working at Dutch universities. Based on latent class analysis one can detect a clear divide among economists. Approximately … two thirds of the economists perceives that this pressure has more downsides than upsides and one third only perceives …
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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
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Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Inequality : A Cautionary Note on the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition Method
Yun, Myeong-Su - 2007
This paper shows how difficult it is to study the roles of discrimination and unobserved skills when studying changes in racial and gender wage gaps over time by examining merits and shortcomings of a popular decomposition method by Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991). The JMP method shows that wage...
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When “Less Is More” : How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy
Csaszar, Felipe A.; Jue-Rajasingh, Diana; Jensen, Michael - 2022
Discrimination is a pervasive aspect of modern society and human relations. Statistical discrimination theory suggests that profit-maximizing employers should use all the information about job candidates, including information about group membership (e.g., race or gender), to make accurate...
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Chapter 5. Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey
Fang, Hanming; Moro, Andrea - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 133-200). 2011
This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature suggests different explanations for the existence and persistence of group inequality. This survey highlights such differences and describes in these contexts the effects of...
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The Hidden Cost of Flat Hierarchies on Applicant Pool Diversity : Evidence from Experiments
Hurst, Reuben; Lee, Saerom (Ronnie); Frake, Justin - 2022
This paper investigates how an organization’s formal hierarchy affects the gender diversity in its applicant pool. One perspective based on theories of gendered organizations suggests that, because women may perceive “flat” organizational structures with few hierarchical levels as...
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