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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who … submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved, with most of the gender effect coming from gender-biased officers … repayment rates than men and find that gender-biased officers in the treatment-group discriminated more against women relative …
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In this study, we investigate the extent and mechanisms of gender-based discrimination in urban Ecuador's hiring … practices, a critical issue for understanding persistent gender disparities and informing policy. Using an artifactual field … differentials. We hypothesize that social norms advocating for gender equality significantly drive these preferences, and …
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historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race … segregation are with 7% in terms of the Karmel-Maclachlan index low and lower than respective gender-based segregation over the … same period and have remained constant over the sample period. Most of the race-based occupational segregation is a result …
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We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other … sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present …
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We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in … the other sector and the effect on labour market performance therefore depends on whether discrimination is present in …
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discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise … applicants living in slums received nearly 28 percent fewer callbacks than other applicants. We observe discrimination across … jobs that require a university degree, with discrimination being concentrated in administrative and software …
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a Race Implicit Association Test, we compute different types of racial bias. We find that while job counselors do not …
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How does exposure to soap operas with LGBTIQ+ characters affect attitudes toward the LGBTIQ+ community? To answer this question, we construct a novel database of 175 telenovelas (soap operas) with LGBTIQ+ characters airing in 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2002 and 2019....
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senior surgeons and cardiologists. We estimate how the gender of supervisors early in one’s career affects subsequent choice … effect corresponds to two-fifths of the gender gap in training choices, and appears even in specialties that are not … matter, and that gender match effects interact with preferences for geographic and schedule flexibility. …
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