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crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences …The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in … are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …
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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 …
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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 …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether the quality of the game deteriorates as the stakes become...
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In the Northern Territory, Australia, ballot papers for territory elections depict candidates’ photographs. We exploit this unusual electoral feature by looking at the effect that candidates’ beauty and skin color has on voting patterns. Our results for beauty are mixed, but we find strong...
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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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