Search Results - subject:"‘discrimination’"

Ivandic, Ria; Lassen, Anne Sophie - 2023

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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023

Using a promotion signaling model in which wages are realistically shaped by market forces, we analyze how male overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that overconfident workers exert more effort to be...

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Anti-Discrimination Law and Economic Inequalities

Ringelheim, Julie; Ganty, Sarah - 2023

A number of scholars and civil society actors criticize anti-discrimination law arguing that it neglects the … highlights some of the limitations of anti-discrimination law, such limitations do not mean that anti-discrimination law and (re … how each of these legal and policy instruments relates to the ideal of equality. It shows that anti-discrimination law and …

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Effects of Parental Death on Labor Market Outcomes and Gender Inequalities

Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard; Zhang, Ning - 2023

Nearly everyone experiences the death of a parent in adulthood, but little is known about the effects of parental death on adult children's labor market outcomes and the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we utilize Danish administrative data to examine the effects of losing a parent on...

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Unpacking Name-Based Race Discrimination

Abel, Martin; Burger, Rulof - 2023

We investigate the extent and underlying mechanisms of how race beliefs associated with applicants' names affect hiring decisions. Using nationally representative data, we find widespread beliefs that people with names perceived to be Black possess lower levels of education, productivity and...

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Mismatch in the Workplace : Exploring Racial Gaps in Labor Market Outcomes under the Mismatch Hypothesis Using the after the JD Study

Kaczmarczyk-Smith, Christopher - 2023

This paper explores the implications of the mismatch hypothesis in the context of the labor market using a survey on newly licensed US lawyers called the After the JD Study. Using a triple difference approach, I measure the impact of diversity quotas on marginal minority workers’ future...

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Roma and Bureaucrats : A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination

Mikula, Stepan; Montag, Josef - 2023

facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status … prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to … have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them …

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Female labor force participation and wage gap in Urban Ethiopia

Tesfaw, Zinabu; Mehare, Abule - 2023

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What does job applicants' body art signal to employers?

Baert, Stijn; Herregods, Jolien; Sterkens, Philippe - 2023

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Couples and gender inequality

Larsen, Kristian - 2023

This study shows that entering into a cohabiting partnership leads to long lasting earnings losses for women, even after accounting for the impact of child penalties. While 2 ⁄3 of the total effect of cohabitation is due to partnered women having higher fertility than unpartnered women, an...

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