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discrimination across firms. …
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differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …
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This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment experiences of ethnic minorities living in England and Wales. It focuses on two main issues, firstly the extent to which the employment position of the main ethnic minority groups...
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Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor …
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providing insight into the presence of mistake-based discrimination. Specifically if female-headed firms were systematically …
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Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important … cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor …. Together these results point to the subtle but systematic forms of discrimination that continue to shape employment …
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The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for … the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination …-assignment discrimination depends upon racial productivity differences, the productivity x prejudice interaction, technology, relative labor …
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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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) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii … discrimination against an outgroup. We integrate both responses in a microeconomic model of hiring and pay decisions by an employer … hence enhances discrimination. …
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