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Race and Gender Income Inequality in the USA : Black Women vs. White Men
Kitov, Ivan - 2020
Income inequality between different races in the U.S. is especially large. This difference is even larger when gender is involved. In a complementary study, we have developed a dynamic micro-economic model accurately describing the evolution of male and female incomes since 1930. Here, we extend...
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Hiring discrimination in labor markets : an experimental study of mood regulation
Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2021
the discrimination faced my homosexual job candidates compared to heterosexuals. Our experimental design allows us to … getting hired regardless the labor market context. We also find that female employers propose higher levels of discrimination … only for the case of female applicants. Our positive mood manipulation led to a depletion of discrimination levels, with …
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Stereotypes of physical appearance and labor market chances
Araï, Mahmood; Gartell, Marie; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, … - 2016
Using an experimental setup involving 436 case workers at the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES) as subjects and the profile photographs and recorded voices of 75 jobseekers as treatments, we report results indicating that male case workers tend to favor jobseekers perceived as having a...
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Discrimination without taste : how discrimination can spillover and persist
Ramachandran, Rajesh; Rauh, Christopher - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 3, pp. 249-274
the theoretical predictions, beliefs about discrimination are a significant correlate of self-employment rates, as well as …We introduce coordination failures driven by beliefs regarding the presence of taste discriminators as a channel of … discrimination in productive activities requiring the input of multiple agents. We show that discrimination can persist under …
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Discrimination without taste : how discrimination can spillover and persist
Ramachandran, Rajesh; Rauh, Christopher - 2018 - Draft: June 2018
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature
Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...
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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data : an application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - 2012
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
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Compensating differentials in experimental labor markets
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - 2015
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...
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