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them: Consistent with statistical discrimination theory, minority referrals are more likely to receive a job offer than non … distinguish between taste-based discrimination where employers' racial animus is the key motivation for their poor treatment of … minorities and variants of statistical discrimination where there is no assumption at all of racial animus on the part of the …
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suggest that employers do contribute to this type of segregation. While ethnic discrimination is pervasive in the 'native …
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This paper offers a new representation of discrimination on the job market based on the most recent findings in the … a job) and the staff of the firm. Contrary to the classical view according to which discrimination results from …
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We propose a new method which allows for measuring separately taste based discrimination from statistical … discrimination in the hiring process. We consider two types of statistical discriminations against women: first, when a recruiter … experimental data from which we obtain optimal estimates of the discrimination components. The method is applied to three …
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productivity; therefore, discrimination is undermined by competition. The present paper, in contrast, argues that being … lower wages and higher profits. Discrimination can thus be an endogenous response to (changes in) competition. Indeed, the … relationship between discrimination and competition can be non-monotone. Moreover, a ban on wage discrimination (which may be …
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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 …
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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 …
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This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … segregation. However, levels of discrimination differ considerably among occupations, varying from no evidence of disability …
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We test if firms statistically discriminate workers based on race when employer learning is asymmetric. Using data from the NLSY79, we find evidence of asymmetric employer learning. In addition, employers statistically discriminate against non-college educated black workers at time of hiring. We...
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integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …
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