When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of … 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense because it generated a large increase in gender …

find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab …

The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and …

resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …

This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …

most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination … attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage … outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …

-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …