This article examines whether and to what extent employers' hiring preferences regarding male and female applicants' cognitive and noncognitive skills signals vary with the regional and occupational recruitment context. According to the job-competition model, supply and demand might increase or...

This paper explores a possible sampling bias in field experiments through a unique combination of a large-scale field experiment on ethnic discrimination in the German rental housing market (N = 2,992 tested apartments) and data on the internet housing market where the apartments were sampled...

Research consistently reports pronounced earnings differences between men and women, even among the highly educated. This article investigates whether students’ responsiveness to information on income returns relates to gender differences in major choices, which might contribute to the...

A significant share of employees in Europe has less formal training than is required by their job; they are undereducated. We use harmonized panel data from the United Kingdom and Germany to investigate the skills and resources allowing the undereducated to develop careers in occupations...

Numerous correspondence studies have found strong and persistent evidence for racial discrimination in the U.S. labour market. However, since in the majority of studies race was the only variable that was manipulated, it is difficult to disentangle whether it is the ethnic background, the...

Using a survey experiment, we test whether discrimination against job candidates with a second-generation migration background varies by signaling either assimilation into the host society or attachment to the country of origin. In our study, Swiss HR managers evaluate descriptions of fictitious...

In most national education systems, educational attainment depends heavily on parental socioeconomic status, which challenges the notion of equal opportunity. Educational interventions have increasingly become the focus of public and scientific debate as a tool for mitigating these disparities....

This paper contributes to the debate on early-career precariousness and inequalities against the backdrop of labour market deregulation. The analyses focus on a cohort of young Italian workers who entered the labour market after the deregulatory reforms of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Instead...

Immigrant children in Europe remain in a position of educational disadvantage. Most studies underscore the role of the parents’ education level and their socio-economic status in the educational achievement of their children. This paper adds to the literature by exploring other factors that...

This study examines how within-couple inequalities, that is power differences between men and women in a partnership, act as predictors of transitions from full-time to part-time employment applying Heckman corrected probit models in three different institutional and cultural contexts; Eastern...