are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates … from a logit or probit model. Expanding on the original application of the technique in Fairlie (1999), I provide a more …The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group …

are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates … from a logit or probit model. Expanding on the original application of the technique in Fairlie (1999), I provide a more …The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group …

influence. Becker (1957) and Arrow (1972) developed the most general theories of wage discrimination and favoritism. Oaxaca …

an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender …

market using official statistics since race can only be inferred from native language. Moreover, employers may think that … distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …

endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …

The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and …

How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond … whether fixed traits such as country of birth or gender are more consequential. We find no evidence that immigrants can affect …

Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important … cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor …. Together these results point to the subtle but systematic forms of discrimination that continue to shape employment …