We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, have lower preferences than men for risk and competition, and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender … men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which … scored on statements related to theoretical reasons for hiring discrimination given in the literature. The resulting data are …

changing. Why? I embed a field experiment within the UK national recruitment program for social workers to analyse barriers to … messages to potential applicants to exogenously vary two key drivers of selection: perceived gender shares and expectations of … returns to ability. I find that perceived gender shares do not affect men's applications, while increasing expected returns to …

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender … men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which … scored on statements related to theoretical reasons for hiring discrimination given in the literature. The resulting data are …

While the official gender pay gap figure is 9.1% for full-time workers, the pay gap between men and women aged 22-39 is …

Despite an influx of new gender pay gap data – ranging from negative gaps, to gaps exceeding 60% – the government’s new …

We conduct an artefactual field experiment to examine various spillover effects of Affirmative Action policies in the …

Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment … for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two … constraints for blue-collar jobs than white-collar/pink-collar jobs, and that women face greater age discrimination than men …