This paper offers a new representation of discrimination on the job market based on the most recent findings in the … a job) and the staff of the firm. Contrary to the classical view according to which discrimination results from …

We propose a new method which allows for measuring separately taste based discrimination from statistical … discrimination in the hiring process. We consider two types of statistical discriminations against women: first, when a recruiter … experimental data from which we obtain optimal estimates of the discrimination components. The method is applied to three …

them: Consistent with statistical discrimination theory, minority referrals are more likely to receive a job offer than non … distinguish between taste-based discrimination where employers' racial animus is the key motivation for their poor treatment of … minorities and variants of statistical discrimination where there is no assumption at all of racial animus on the part of the …