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, but all wage differences become negligible when the taste for discrimination is small. We analyze the effect of an equal …
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Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …
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effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination ….S.-born Asian men stemmed from a decline in anti-Asian discrimination. Although much of the policy focus of the civil rights era was … directed at reducing discrimination against blacks, our findings suggest a prominent post-Civil Rights Act labor market effect …
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We provide new evidence on the link between beauty and hiring practices in the labor market. Specifically, we study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after submitting a resume. Our empirical strategy is based on an experimental approach. We sent fictitious...
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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This paper uses Social Security longitudinal earnings records matched to Current Population Survey data to examine changes in the relative earnings of Hispanic men during a period of dramatic change in public and private policies toward race and ethnicity characterized by, but not limited to,...
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We examined the liability-of-foreignness (LOF) hypothesis for immigrant and native job seekers by analyzing a national dataset that tracks their use of job-search methods and their associated job outcomes in the Canadian labor market. To our knowledge this is the first empirical test of LOF at...
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-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially … operations. This finding is consistent with taste-based theories of discrimination and with commitments made by large firms to …
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consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …
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We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that...
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