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Do ethnicity and sex of employers affect applicants' job interest? : an experimental exploration

Granberg, Mark; Ottosson, Niklas; Ahmed, Ali M. - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/15, pp. 1-10

results provided no evidence of ethnic or sex discrimination by job-seekers against employers. …

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Anonymous job applications and hiring discrimination : anonymous job applications can level the playing field in access to jobs but cannot prevent all forms of discrimination

Rinne, Ulf - 2014

The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a …

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to Internet job board applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant...

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Anonymous job applications in Europe

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …

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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier : is discrimination absolute or relative?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-17

Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...

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The minorities' status in the European Union

Nistor, Ionuţ - In: CES working papers 1 (2009) 2, pp. 76-85

The problem of the minorities' status in the European Union represents a research topic still less analyzed in Romanian historiography. Usefulness lies in deepening the clarification of concepts like "minority", "national minority", "linguistic minority", etc. and the establishment of certain...

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Field experimental evidence on gender discrimination in hiring : biased as Heckman and Siegelman predicted?

Baert, Stijn - 2015

Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However … of discrimination in America, 1993), namely the bias in their results in case of group differences in the variance of … discrimination. The authors do not find significant evidence for the feared bias. …

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Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap : despite major efforts at equal pay legislation, gender pay inequality still exists in the developed economies : how can this be put...

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

Despite equal pay legislation dating back 50 years, American women still earn 22% less than their male counterparts. In the UK, with its Equal Pay Act of 1970, and France, which legislated in 1972, the gap is 21% and 17% respectively, and in Australia it remains around 17%. Interestingly, the...

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Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania : from planned equality to market inequality?

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 10, pp. 1-27

In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...

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Differences in full-time work experience explain almost a quarter of the gender pay gap in management positions

Holst, Elke; Marquardt, Anne - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 34/35, pp. 315-324

Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and 2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in relevant wage determinants are excluded, a pay gap of 11...

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