We conduct a correspondence study to assess demand for soft skills in the context of hiring discrimination in Malaysia … novel evidence that soft skills and labor market competition both play an important role in understanding hiring …. We find no evidence of gender-based discrimination, including in STEM occupations. However, in line with previous studies …

that soft skills and labor market competition both play important roles in understanding hiring discrimination. This …This paper conducts a correspondence study to assess demand for soft skills in the context of hiring discrimination in … Malaysia. No evidence of gender-based discrimination is found, including in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics …

This paper tests the impact of competition on the hiring process in the French retail sector. Following the Becker …'s theory, higher the competition, lower is discrimination. Using local Herfindhal-Hirschman indexes, a correspondence study … ensures to observe how competition affects discrimination. A strong employment gap is observable between French natives and …

results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration background, it is most pronounced for applicants with … an African, i.e. Nigerian, background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a battery of firm and job specific … explain the actual level of discrimination. Discrimination in Austria therefore seems to be a general phenomenon driven by …

The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a … light on their potential to reduce some of the discriminatory barriers to hiring for minority and other disadvantaged groups …

matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration … background, it is most pronounced for applicants with an African background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a … discrimination in Austria. …

Increasing empirical research on productivity supports the use of statistical or ‘rational’ discrimination in hiring …. The practice is legal for features of job applicants not covered by human rights discrimination laws, such as being a … under existing philosophical accounts of wrongful discrimination. This paper argues that lawful statistical discrimination …

attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …

We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe … an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … characterize how one agent's private valuation of the candidate influences the other agent's hiring practices. This influence is …

A large body of research documents the existence of discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities in the labour … market. This study investigates for Austria, to what degree employment discrimination against ethnic minorities is mitigated … and ethnic photographs, black but not Asian job applicants suffered from discrimination. With a local sounding name …