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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

The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and …

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Inclusive Recruitment? Hiring Discrimination against Older Workers

Drydakis, Nick; MacDonald, Peter; Bozani, Vasiliki; … - 2017

Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two applicants engage in an identical job search, the older...

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Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

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Does racial and ethnic discrimination vary across minority groups? Evidence from a field experiment

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - 2010

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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Ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market: a field experiment

Kaas, Leo; Manger, Christian - 2010

This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of...

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Gender and racial discrimination in hiring : a pseudo audit study for three selected occupations in metropolitan Lima

Moreno, Martin; Ñopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Maximo - 2004

statistical discrimination. The results suggest the existence of no significant differences in hiring rates for different gender-race …In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a …

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The economics of discrimination: evidence from basketball

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some … discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …

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Between meritocracy and ethnic discrimination: the gender difference

Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - 2008

Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...

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Systemic Discrimination among Large U.S. Employers

Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher R. - 2021

find a between-company standard deviation in gender contact gaps of 2.7 percentage points, revealing that some firms favor … both racial and gender contact gaps. Contact gaps are highly concentrated in particular companies, with firms in the top …

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Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2017

In many countries, ethnic minorities have a persistent disadvantageous socioeconomic position. We investigate whether aversion to competing against members of the ethnically dominant group could be a contributing factor to this predicament. We conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural...

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