Search Results - subject:"Discrimination in the Workplace"

Race, glass ceilings, and lower pay for equal work

Hegde, Deepak; Ljungqvist, Alexander; Raj, Manav - 2022

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How to reduce discrimination? : evidence from a field experiment in amateur soccer

Dur, Robert A. J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022 - This version: 17 January 2022

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...

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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination : experimental evidence from basic information treatments

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022

We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual-orientation...

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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination: experimental evidence from basic information treatments

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804484

Expanding Civil Rights to Combat Digital Discrimination on the Basis of Poverty

Gilman, Michele E. - 2022

We live in a datafied society in which a vast network of public and private entities collect and combine our personal data. Algorithms sort these data troves and generate digital profiles that serve as gatekeepers to life’s necessities such as jobs, housing, health care, and education. Several...

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Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Minority Occupational Attainments in the UK 2014-2018

Kausar, Rukhsana; Malki, Issam - 2022

The integration and assimilation of ethnic minority immigrants (EMIs) and their subsequent generations remains a serious unsettled issue in most of the host countries. This study conducts the labour market gender analysis to investigate specifically whether second generation of ethnic minority...

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Race-Norming and Statistical Discrimination : Beyond the NFL

Starr, Sonja B. - 2022

This Article uses the recent NFL “race-norming” scandal—in which Black players with concussion claims were scored differently on cognitive impairment tests, based on the assumption that they were less intelligent at baseline—as an entry point to a broad-ranging analysis of...

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Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination : A Hiring Experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2022

Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy...

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Gender Discrimination in Competitive Markets

Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2022

We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female workers are equally productive, but the female workers are deliberately paid less than the male due to subjective discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973),...

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Bundle of Joy? Oh Boy : How Louisiana's Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is a Push to End Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace

Girouard, Destiny - 2022

explore the history of pregnancy discrimination in the workplace and examine legislation, both pending and enacted, at the … scope by examining pregnancy discrimination in the workplace, specifically in the state of Louisiana. This article examines …. While the Act is certainly a push in the right direction toward ending pregnancy discrimination in the workplace, there is …

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