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-seven, inquired about employment as waiters; women aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired about employment in retail sales. The …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.
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We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia - a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and...
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indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …
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We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from …
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Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women …, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become …, all countries in which gender employment gaps are high. In particular, correction for employment selection explains more …
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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
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This paper aims at quantifying the trend in worker segregation at the establishment level and its impact on wages in Portugal over a fifteen year period. We concentrate on the gender dimension, to answer the questions: have changes in recruitment policies at the establishment level resulted in...
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The paper explores the role of workers? expectations as an original explanation for the puzzling long run persistence of observed discrimination against some minorities in the labor market. A game of incomplete information is presented, showing that ex ante identical groups of workers may be...
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This paper is an experimental analysis of the role played by workers? expectations in explaining the puzzling long-run persistence of observed discrimination against certain minorities in the labor market. The experiment provides some evidence supporting the theoretical prediction that unequal...
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