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opportunities for low-wage workers. -- Discrimination ; field experiment ; race ; labor markets …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 …
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How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond … efforts to reduce discrimination must address employer prejudice. …
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527315
toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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, interestingly, this effect does not differ by race. The amount of discrimination is uniform across occupations and industries …We perform a field experiment to measure racial discrimination in the labor market. We respond with fictitious resumes … to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers. To manipulate perception of race, each resume is randomly assigned …
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At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....
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This article provides direct evidence of appearance discrimination in Chinese context based on an experimental approach … submitting a resume on the job search website. We find significant appearance discrimination in Chinese labor market, where … a higher level of appearance discrimination at 27%, which proves the existence of gender discrimination in Chinese labor …
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Ethnic and racial discrimination in the hiring process is a common and documented problem. Scientists from different … backgrounds and numerous countries have tried to measure the extent of this form of discrimination, mostly by using field … discrimination in more general terms as well as reviewing the studies already conducted that focus on ethnic or racial discrimination …
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toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604711