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discrimination against members of historically marginalized groups. These concerns are being expressed through Congressional …-oriented policies that may facilitate illegitimate discrimination or involve fairness corrections unlikely to be legally valid. Worse … statistical discrimination in the context of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Using instruction from the burden …
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, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …
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This paper estimates the effects of group identity on discrimination in the marketplace. We conducted an audit study in … sellers in 922 market interactions. To identify discrimination patterns and the rationale behind them, we manipulated the …) towards buyers wearing the Brazil t-shirt when Brazil had won a match in the very recent past, and discrimination (i.e. higher …
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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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matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration … background, it is most pronounced for applicants with an African background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a … discrimination in Austria …
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increase under discrimination because the platform often voluntarily lowers price(s) - sometimes on both sides - to attract … other users. Therefore, tightening anti-discrimination policies for platforms can increase price and decrease welfare …
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The literature contains ambiguous findings as to whether statistical discrimination, e.g. in the form of racial … determined, statistical discrimination as well as taste-based discrimination lead to an increase in criminal activity. Moreover …, the negative effects of statistical discrimination on deterrence are more persistent than similar effects due to taste …
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We exploit a natural experiment to study discrimination in elections. In Illinois Republican presidential primaries … gender. We identify discrimination from variation in vote totals among delegates bound to the same presidential candidate and … percent fewer votes. We find essentially no gender discrimination. Negligible incentives for statistical discrimination, costs …
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy …
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