channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …

. However, positive characteristics mitigate discrimination against headscarf and even reverse it. …

The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a …

discrimination in productive activities requiring the input of multiple agents. We show that discrimination can persist under … perfectly observable ability, when taste for discrimination has died out, and under absence of discriminatory social norms … the theoretical predictions, beliefs about discrimination are a significant correlate of self-employment rates, as well as …

Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which … includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act … upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative …

This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire … both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced … firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to …