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Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap

Exley, Christine L.; Fisman, Raymond; Kessler, Judd B.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We analyze data from two universities that allowed students to conceal grades from their transcripts during the Covid-19 pandemic. Across both institutions, we observe a significant and substantial gender concealment gap: women are less likely than men to conceal grades that would harm their...

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Equal employment opportunity law and firm profitability

Hersch, Joni - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 26 (1991) 1, pp. 139-153

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Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on social security disability insurance? : evidence from the U.S. social security reforms

Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur R. - 2020

discrimination laws moderated these spillovers, using variation whereby many state laws are broader or stronger than federal law. We … stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability …

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The effect of the 2016 United States presidential election on employment discrimination

Gorzig, Marina Mileo; Rho, Deborah - 2020

We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We … difference between white and Somali American applicants increased by 8 percentage points. The increased discrimination … 2018 to test for seasonality in discrimination; there was no substantial increase in discrimination after the 2017 election. …

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Separate and unequal : the effect of unequal access to employment-based health insurance on gay, lesbian, and bisexual people

Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M. V. Lee - 2004

Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...

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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states

Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011

Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...

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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

U.S.. Furthermore, using U.S. data, we find that the discrimination of the unemployed increased over the 1980's in those …

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Strike three : umpires' demand for discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008

measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …

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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier : is discrimination absolute or relative?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012

. -- beauty ; height ; discrimination ; market responses …

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …

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