We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …, firms exactly at the quota threshold employ 0.05 (20 % in relative terms) more disabled workers than firms just below the … firms passing the quota threshold react with a substantial time-lag but the magnitude of the long-run effect is similar to …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …

An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this … this is largely explained by a matching decline in ‘Oaxaca's discrimination,’ suggesting extraordinary improvement of women …

Using a unique data source on academic economist labour market experiences, we explore gender, pay and promotions. In … addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. In … contrast to the existing literature, we find both a gender promotions gap and a within-rank gender pay gap. A driving factor …

results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It …

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labour supply of … paper we also explore differences in gender elasticities which emerge endogenously in a model in which spouses bargain over … market work, social welfare improves by taxing conditional on gender. When income sharing within the family is substantial …

We study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field …

intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …