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Hiring discrimination towards (former) burnout patients has been extensively documented in the literature. To tackle … this problem, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms of such discrimination. Therefore, we conducted a …
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attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …
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We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more … hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test …
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on the level of discrimination: This type of recruitment organization results in a 0.29-point decrease in the probability …. However, little is known about how these behaviors can be prevented. In this work, we assess how organization of recruitment … in large companies affects ethnic discrimination. We consider large multi-establishment companies and distinguish two …
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As age discrimination hampers the OECD's ambition to extend the working population, an efficient anti-discrimination … policy targeted at the right employers is critical. Therefore, the context in which age discrimination is most prevalent must … moderators of age discrimination in different demand-side domains (i.e. decision-maker, vacancy, occupation, organisation, and …
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This paper studies a key element of discrimination, namely when stereotypes translate into discriminatory actions …. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by design and test for the presence of two types of belief …-based gender discrimination. We document evidence of explicit discriminators-individuals who are willing to discriminate even when …
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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 …
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This paper investigates supply-side discrimination in the labor market for Boston taxi drivers. Using data on millions … drivers discriminate and find that this discrimination is primarily statistical rather than taste-based. As drivers gain … experience and learn to better anticipate wage variation, discrimination decreases. …
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This paper develops an equilibrium search model to explain gender asymmetry in occupational distribution. Workers' utility depends on salary and working hours, and women have a greater aversion to longer working hours than men. Simulations indicate that women crowd into shorter-hour,...
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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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