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 …

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This … suggests that market competition can eliminate the discrimination of wholesale buyers …

This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire … both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced … firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to …

In this paper we introduce coordination failures driven by beliefs as a channel of persistent discrimination in … activities characterized by interdependency in payo ffs and interlinkages across markets. The model shows how discrimination can … persist under perfect observability of individual ability, when taste for discrimination has died out, and in the absence of …

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 …

inaccurate statistical discrimination with ambiguity about worker abilities. We show that, even if group characteristics are …

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 …

This paper describes a novel concept of customer discrimination in the housing market, neighbor discrimination. We … the existence of neighbor discrimination. In an empirical application, we show that this null hypothesis is rejected for …