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Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...

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Labor market discrimination of minorities? yes, but not in job offers

Bøg, Martin; Kranendonk, Erik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the efficacy of anonymous application procedures. While the policy evaluation itself is of interest, more importantly the experiment provides a unique opportunity to detect race based differential treatment in a controlled...

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Job assignment and promotion under statistical discrimination: evidence from the early careers of lawyers

Lehmann, Jee-Yeon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

career paths of blacks and whites, I develop a dynamic model of statistical discrimination in which firms diversify their …

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Attorney empowerment in Voir Dire and the racial composition of juries

Lehmann, Jee-Yeon; Smith, Jeremy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Giving attorneys more power in the voir dire (jury selection) process may allow them to 1) find grounds for dismissal of jurors whom they wish to strike on a priori grounds; 2) acquire information that enables them to identify favorably-inclined jurors more precisely; or both. Attorneys who are...

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Success from Satisficing and Imitation: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choice and Implications of Heuristics for Local Economic Development

Berg, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Decisions about location choice provide an opportunity to compare the predictions of optimization models, which require exhaustive search through very large choice sets, against the actual decision processes used by entrepreneurs choosing where to allocate investment capital. This paper presents...

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Are all migrants really worse off in urban labour markets: new empirical evidence from China.

Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

regarding pay discrimination against rural migrants. This paper uses data from a random draw of the 2005 Chinese national census … survey to shed more light on the discrimination issue, by making comparisons of earnings and the sector of work between rural … discrimination against rural migrants compared to urban residents. However, rural migrants are found to be discriminated in terms of …

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Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

Landeo, Claudia M.; Spier, Kathryn E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

contracts with the incumbent. When discrimination is impossible, the game resembles a stag-hunt (coordination) game in which the … induces more generous contract terms from the seller. When discrimination and communication are possible, the exclusion rate …

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Notas sobre Descomposiciones Microeconométricas: Un Análisis Antropométrico

Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This essay presents a theoretic approximation on the microeconometric decompositions analysis by incorporating anthropometric variables, and apprainsing theirs presumable effects on the income distribution. A new body-mass-index based equivalent scale is proposed toward more accurate individual...

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Incentive to discriminate? An experimental investigation of teacher incentives in India

Jain, Tarun; Narayan, Tulika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We address the challenge of designing performance-based incentive schemes for schoolteachers. When teachers specialize in different subjects in the presence of social prejudice, performance based pay which depends on the average of student performance can cause teachers to coordinate their...

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The Effect of Higher Education on Gender Wage-Gap

Livanos, Ilias; Nunez, Imanol - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

-Blinder decomposition technique is used. We find that the unexplained part, which is often related to discrimination is lower for graduates …

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