applications from two potential employees. We consider whether the gender of the other employer will influence an employerś hiring … decision. We find that the gender mix among employers plays a role in the individual hiring decisions of female members. Female … about relative gender performance are significantly associated with the observed hiring bias, while implicit attitudes do …

According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for … discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should … therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination. We look at the natural experiment represented by the Brazilian trade …

discrimination. But while the Court famously invalidated several sex-based laws at the end of the twentieth century, it also issued … long-ignored cases that approved of sex discrimination, this Article explains how the Court's rulings in this area have … equal protection that authorizes certain forms of sex discrimination, (Un)Equal Protection advocates for one particular …

tax rate on minimum wage income. We solve this alleged puzzle by introducing discrimination of individuals that do not … government policy. In the empirical part, we show that the share of inhabitants approving of labor market discrimination against …

This paper studies the effect of employee job selection in a model of statistical discrimination in a competitive … group suffer from discrimination turn out to be surprisingly strong. In general it is quite possible that for certain jobs … the discrimination can favor the group that is, on average, worse qualified, while for other jobs it favors the group that …

discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise … applicants living in slums received nearly 28 percent fewer callbacks than other applicants. We observe discrimination across … jobs that require a university degree, with discrimination being concentrated in administrative and software …

Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However … of discrimination in America, 1993), namely the bias in their results in case of group differences in the variance of … unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender …