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discrimination or to individual effort. The absence of any evidence of regional discrimination in the process by which misconduct …
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We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
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in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …
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We present a new type of field experiment to investigate ethnic prejudice in the workplace. Our design allows us to … study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is … worker on ethnic grounds. In addition, we find that the standard theory of statistical discrimination fails to explain …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that...
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The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...
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key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …
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Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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We study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field … experiment in two Italian cities: Rome and Milan, by sending fake CVs to real ads. We find that there is a strong penalty for …
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