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Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility : evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Becker, Sascha O.; Fernandes, Ana; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2019

Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer's perspective, in their fertile age they are also at "risk" of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a large-scale correspondence test in...

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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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Discrimination against women in hiring

Osman, Adam; Speer, Jamin D.; Weaver, Andrew - 2023

We study discrimination in hiring and its associated outcomes for the discriminators using a unique survey of Egyptian … businesses. Discrimination against women is widespread and overt: about half (51%) of establishments directly admit that they … randomization technique, we can rule out that discrimination against women is heavily stigmatized in Egypt, meaning that …

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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination: experimental evidence from basic information treatments

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022

economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …

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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination : experimental evidence from basic information treatments

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022

economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …

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What happens when employers can no longer discriminate in job ads?

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing - 2021

When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense...

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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …

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Are economics conferences gender-neutral? : evidence from Ireland

Samahita, Margaret; Devereux, Kevin - 2022

We study gender inequality in conference acceptance using data from the Irish Economic Association annual conference from 2016 to 2022, exploiting the introduction of anonymised submission in 2021 to study the effect of blinding. While no gender gap is observed in the organisers' acceptance...

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Female hires and the success of start-up firms

Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009

. -- Firm survival ; profitability ; female employment ; discrimination, market test ; matched employer-employee data …

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Female hires and the success of start-up firms

Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009

. -- Firm survival ; profitability ; female employment ; discrimination ; market test ; matched employer-employee data …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919841