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Interpreting wage gaps of disabled men: The roles of productivity and discrimination

Longhi, Simonetta; Nicoletti, Cheti; Platt, Lucinda - 2010

Discrimination Act. We estimate wage gaps at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution, and decompose them into …-related reduced productivity, and a residual part which we can more confidently interpret as discrimination. For physically disabled … evidence of wage discrimination. …

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For whom does the phone (not) ring? Discrimination in the rental housing market in Delhi, India

Datta, Saugato; Pathania, Vikram - 2016

evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both in terms of probability of being contacted and the number of …

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The wage penalty of regional accents

Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas; Winter, Joachim - 2019

Previous work has documented that speaking one's native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of...

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Do Inclusive Education Policies Improve Employment Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Agüero, Jorge M.; Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - 2020

In labor markets where disadvantaged students are discriminated against, meritbased college scholarships targeting these students could convey two opposing signals to employers. There is a positive signal reflecting the candidate's cognitive ability (talented in high-school and able to maintain...

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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...

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Racial wage differentials in developed countries

Longhi, Simonetta - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)

In many developed countries, racial and ethnic minorities are paid, on average, less than the native white majority. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and further generations. Eliminating racial wage...

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Selection wages and discrimination

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2009

Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...

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Detecting discrimination in Audit and correspondence studies

Neumark, David - 2010

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

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Correspondence testing studies : what can we learn about discrimination in hiring?

Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2014

Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory … practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in …

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Rhetoric in economic research : the case of gender wage differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about "discrimination", whether …

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