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Income inequality between different races in the U.S. is especially large. This difference is even larger when gender is involved. In a complementary study, we have developed a dynamic micro-economic model accurately describing the evolution of male and female incomes since 1930. Here, we extend...
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the discrimination faced my homosexual job candidates compared to heterosexuals. Our experimental design allows us to … getting hired regardless the labor market context. We also find that female employers propose higher levels of discrimination … only for the case of female applicants. Our positive mood manipulation led to a depletion of discrimination levels, with …
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Using an experimental setup involving 436 case workers at the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES) as subjects and the profile photographs and recorded voices of 75 jobseekers as treatments, we report results indicating that male case workers tend to favor jobseekers perceived as having a...
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), stereotypes (statistical discrimination), cognitive biases, and attention-based discrimination. …Discrimination is a complex, multi-factor phenomenon. Evidence shows widespread discrimination on various grounds …, including ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or beliefs, disability, being over 55 years old, or being …
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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
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traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
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