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Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence
Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020
Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed...
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Affirmative action and intersectionality at the top : evidence from South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Minasyan, Anna - 2020
sizable increase in the likelihood of Black women employment in top positions in the post-policy period relative to Black men …, earnings gaps and self-employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158813
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As if it weren't hard enough already : breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout
Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn; Rooman, Claudia; … - 2020
Hiring discrimination towards (former) burnout patients has been extensively documented in the literature. To tackle this problem, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms of such discrimination. Therefore, we conducted a vignette experiment with 425 genuine recruiters and jointly...
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Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination : evidence from a choice experiment
Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Derous, Eva - 2021
Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour...
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A field study of age discrimination in the workplace : the importance of gender and race : pay the gap
Drydakis, Nick; Paraskevopoulou, Anna; Bozani, Vasiliki - 2022
vis-à-vis older employees, with respect to their motivation, productivity, and health, such prejudices against older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013392152
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Earnings discrimination in the workplace
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are differentially remunerated because of their social group. The paper reviews theories of why employers...
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa : the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
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Beyond the stigma of war : Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labour market
Abdulla, Kanat; Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2024
, and a migrant from Russia. We found significant differences in employment outcomes across ethnic groups in the selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557434
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Duration dependence as an unemployment stigma : evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Nüß, Patrick - 2017
Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies duration dependence in Germany, with a particular emphasis on company and vacancy characteristics as potential determinants. The experiment reveals that duration dependence...
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