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Workplace Segregation and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Willis, Sébastien - 2022

Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant’s first job on subsequent labour market outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument...

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Does Crowd Support Drive the Home Advantage in Professional Soccer? Evidence from German Ghost Games During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Fischer, Kai - 2020

This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a … football divisions during the 2019/2020 season. We find that there is a reduced home advantage in the first division, whereas …

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How Much Violence Does Football Hooliganism Cause?

Fabel, Marc G.; Rainer, Helmut - 2022

This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … universe of professional football matches played out in Germany’s top three football leagues over the period 2011-2015. To … violent crimes on days with and without professional football matches while controlling for date heterogeneity, weather, and …

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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?

Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019

Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...

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Market Segregation in the Presence of Customer Discrimination

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023

I consider a market with two firms, a minority group of customers, and a bigoted (racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, or sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves only the minority and a high-price firm serves only...

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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply

Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020

Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...

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Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination : A Hiring Experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2022

Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy...

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Gender Discrimination in Competitive Markets

Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2022

We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female workers are equally productive, but the female workers are deliberately paid less than the male due to subjective discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973),...

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Sports Clubs and Populism : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from German Cities

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...

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Race Meets Bargaining in Product Development

Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2020

.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from …

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