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US. Furthermore, using US data, we find that the discrimination against the unemployed increased over the 1980's in those …
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What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show that his results are robust: For a small information...
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We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice, consumers can determine the precision of a privately observed signal that is informative about their accident risk. The equilibrium effort is, depending on parameter values, either...
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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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worker on ethnic grounds. In addition, we find that the standard theory of statistical discrimination fails to explain … study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is … observed choices, and that taking ethnic prejudice into account helps to predict the incidence of discrimination. …
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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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We study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field …
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addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. In … higher pay increases in response to outside offers. This may arise due to discrimination, and we find that perceptions of … discrimination and also outside job applications correlate with an individual receiving earnings below that expected, given their …
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-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …
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