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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409404
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959532
within the classroom. Do teachers give better grades to children of their own race, ethnicity or gender? A US nationally … question. I look at the effect of being assessed by a same race or same gender teacher conditionally on test scores, child … higher assessments to children of their own race, but not significantly higher assessments to children of their own gender …
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In many developed countries, racial and ethnic minorities are paid, on average, less than the native white majority. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and further generations. Eliminating racial wage...
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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 …
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The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and …
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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 …
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disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect … only minimal assumptions about the ex ante importance of race. …
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