This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire … both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced … firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to …

referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …, followed by their working experience. On the other hand, education acts as a contributor for discrimination in the labor market. …

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. …

Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …

This book explores the effects of discrimination on the economic outcomes of various societal groups. …

's (1973) work, we decompose male-female wage differentials. We also calculate a discrimination coefficient. Our work shows … difference to gender discrimination. …

this is largely explained by a matching decline in ‘Oaxaca's discrimination,’ suggesting extraordinary improvement of women …