An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market … effect of attractiveness within occupations in order to provide more evidence on its productivity-enhancing channel of …

. Productivity signals designed to reduce statistical discrimination, including the offer of a positive reference from a previous …While hiring discrimination against disabled candidates is widely documented, the reasons for such discrimination and … assistants in the UK. Consistent with discrimination, we find a 5.6 percentage point (15%) gap in the employer callback rate …

characterized by far less mobility and opportunity. While we recognize the potential explanations of reduced productivity and age … discrimination, we review evidence pointing to the importance of life-cycle contracts (Hutchens 1986, Lazear 1979). These contracts …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against … immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …

This study investigates the impact of differences in consumers’ racial preferences on worker productivity through the …