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We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …
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We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in …
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most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination … attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …
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Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the …
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The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant … national census survey to investigate discrimination in urban labour markets against rural migrants, by comparing their … differences in their status in the Chinese residential registration system (hukou) we find no earnings discrimination against …
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We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender preferences from firms’ propensities to restrict their search...
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surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …
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Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and … family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is …
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educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other – or both. A number of studies have found that … discrimination as typically measured, but its main impact is through lowering Roma educational attainment suggesting an additional … and labour market discrimination per se but as a complex outcome of cumulative discrimination. In contrast to previous …
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Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows … us to eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as potential sources of discrimination, thus …
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