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Selecting names for experiments on ethnic discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Borm, Hannah Van - 2022
ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the … names used for ethnic minorities in various experiments may have also signaled low socioeconomic class. Therefore, in this … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination. …
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Volunteering and income : the fallacy of the good samaritan?
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2004
This paper explores individual motives for volunteering. The analysis is based on the interpretation of volunteering as … present an econometric framework taking into account self selection into volunteering and simultaneity between the … volunteering decision and the determination of income in order to test these two models and to identify the underlying motives. We …
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Do employer preferences contribute to sticky floors?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschacht, Nick - 2014
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
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Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?
Carlsson, Magnus - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929075
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Does labor market tightness affect ethnic discrimination in hiring?
Carlsson, Magnus; Fumarco, Luca; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795152
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Hiring Discrimination Against Women : Distinguishing Taste Based Discrimination from Statistical Discrimination
Duguet, Emmanuel - 2017
We propose a new method which allows for measuring separately taste based discrimination from statistical discrimination in the hiring process. We consider two types of statistical discriminations against women: first, when a recruiter doubts the productivity of the workers; second, when a...
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Discrimination in the labor market : the curse of competition between workers
Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011
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What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?
Van Borm, Hannah - 2020
Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated against. Therefore, we have conducted an online scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically...
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Perceptions of employability among London's low-paid : "self-determination" or ethnicity?
Croucher, Richard; Ramakrishnan, Sumeetra; Rizov, Marian; … - 2018
We investigate how ethnicity, gender and other characteristics affect low-paid workers' perceptions of their employability in London's labour market, examining self-efficacy, ethnic and dual labour market theories. We find that perceptions vary considerably, both between genders and ethnicities...
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Unemployment or Overeducation : Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...
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