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We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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Modern labor studies consider the relationship between wages and biological markers. A relevant historical question is the relationship between occupational status and biological markers. This study demonstrates that 19th century stature and BMIs were significant in Texas occupation selection;...
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content at different speeds and it is equivalent to a discrimination in terms of quality. With zero-rating, the ISP charges … different prices for content and it is equivalent to a discrimination in terms of prices. We first show that neither of these …
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be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …
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Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...
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By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...
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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities … using a large scale field experiment. Applications were randomly sent to 1477 private firms advertising open positions. We …
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discrimination risk. CL allows agents to withhold that information, generating adverse selection. We complement our model with an … experiment. We obtain that a larger fraction of agents test under CL than under DD, and that the proportion of individuals …
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a disease (a discrimination risk). Differently, Consent Law allows them to hide this detrimental information, creating … exogenous values of adverse selection under Consent Law, and the repeated interactions experiment devised has not resulted in …
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