This paper examines the relationship between inequality and discrimination. Using a simple model of competitive signaling, this paper shows that income inequality motivates discrimination against low-income group. It is parents' investment on their children's signaling that interlinks inequality...

This paper examines the relationship between inequality and discrimination. Using a simple model of competitive signaling, this paper shows that income inequality motivates discrimination against low-income group. It is parents' investment on their children's signaling that interlinks inequality...

This article explores the effectiveness of dispute resolution for gender discrimination claims in the American system of civil litigation. Adversarialism is a defining feature of the American system of civil justice, beginning with reduced trust in the quasi-inquisitorial system of Chancery in...

Google search engine which no longer merely shape public understanding and access to the content on the World Wide Web but also impact and influence the opinion of its users by the search results it produces has been subjected to a lot of criticisms because of some racial discrimination and...

In Google Shopping, the General Court took a giant leap forward. Remarkably, it held that the general principle of equal treatment, as a general principle of EU law, applies in the context of Article 102 TFEU for dominant undertakings. Based on this finding, it reframed the European Commission...

The 1940s witnessed substantial reductions in the Black-white earnings gap. We study the role that domestic WWII defense production played in reducing this gap. Exploiting variation across labor markets in the allocation of war contracts to private firms, we find that war production contracts...

In Section 1 of this online appendix, we briefly suggest how our model can also accommodate the case when affirmative action takes the form of a biased promotion process. In Section 2, we present a generalized model in which we allow for strategic behavior by workers (Section 2.1), for...

This paper investigates how workers' job application decisions are affected by their beliefs about hiring managers' beliefs regarding the relative productivity of women and men. To this end, I combine a natural field experiment with an incentivized online lab experiment. In the field experiment,...

In this paper, I document the systematic differences in labor market experiences between US black and white male workers. I develop a dynamic (search-matching-bargaining) model of taste-based employer discrimination with on-the-job search by workers. Using data from NLSY79, I find that the...