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The timing of preference and prejudice in sequential hiring games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - 2014
an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404030
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Employer discrimination and the immutability of ethnic hierarchies : a field experiment
Vernby, Kåre; Dancygier, Rafaela M. - 2018
How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond … efforts to reduce discrimination must address employer prejudice. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941258
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Bias and discrimination: what do we know?
Della Giusta, Marina; Bosworth, Steven - 2020
The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389877
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Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559587
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Employer discrimination and the immutability of ethnic hierarchies: A field experiment
Vernby, Kåre; Dancygier, Rafaela M. - 2018
How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond … efforts to reduce discrimination must address employer prejudice. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039298
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The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - 2014
an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409404
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Bias and Discrimination: What Do We Know?
Della Giusta, Marina; Bosworth, Steven J. - 2020
The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497884
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528095
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The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959532
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258965