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Does labor market tightness affect ethnic discrimination in hiring?

Carlsson, Magnus; Fumarco, Luca; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2018

Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize three correspondence studies of the Swedish labor...

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Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle : evidence from field experiments

Carlsson, Magnus; Fumarco, Luca; Rooth, Dan-Olof - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 24, pp. 2652-2663

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Using matched employer-employee data to study labor market discrimination

Hellerstein, Judith K. (contributor); … - 2005

wages that remains unexplained after including a wide array of proxies for productivity. What is absent from the residual … any directly observable measure of productivity with which to adjust differentials in wages in trying to infer whether a … particular group suffers from discrimination. The ideal solution would be individual-level productivity data that can be compared …

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Intersectionality and Discrimination : An Examination of the U.S. Labor Market

White, Roger - 2023

Chapter 1: A Rationale for the Study of Intersectional Wage Discrimination -- Chapter 2: Theories of Discrimination and a Review of the Related Literature -- Chapter 3: Our Empirical Strategy: Mincer Earnings Functions and the Blinder-Oaxaca Technique -- Chapter 4: Estimating Wage Discrimination...

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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market : Theory and Empirics

Lang, Kevin - 2011

observability of productivity across races can explain the pattern and magnitudes of wage differentials but do not address … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …

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Using matched employer-employee data to study labor market discrimination

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - In: Handbook on the economics of discrimination, (pp. 29-60). 2006

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Headscarf and job recruitment-lifting the veil of labour market discrimination

Leckcivilize, Attakrit; Straub, Alexander - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 11, pp. 1-32

This paper investigates effects of appearance and religious practice of job applicants on the hiring decision. We asked participants in our laboratory experiment to select fictitious candidates for an interview from a pool of CVs with comparable characteristics but different photos. Some photos...

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Do anti-discrimination policies work? : a mix of policies could be the solution to reducing discrimination in the labor market

Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2018

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 a woman. Combating discrimination requires combining...

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Local labor markets and taste-based discrimination

Berson, Clémence - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-29

This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in...

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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market : Theory and Empirics

Lang, Kevin - 2011

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