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This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to delineate the social-psychological mechanisms of 'externalization' and 'internalization' to understand the possible consequences of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative...
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discrimination laws moderated these spillovers, using variation whereby many state laws are broader or stronger than federal law. We … stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability …
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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
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effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination ….S.-born Asian men stemmed from a decline in anti-Asian discrimination. Although much of the policy focus of the civil rights era was … directed at reducing discrimination against blacks, our findings suggest a prominent post-Civil Rights Act labor market effect …
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effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination ….S.-born Asian men stemmed from a decline in anti-Asian discrimination. Although much of the policy focus of the civil rights era was … directed at reducing discrimination against blacks, our findings suggest a prominent post-Civil Rights Act labor market effect …
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We provide new evidence on the link between beauty and hiring practices in the labor market. Specifically, we study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after submitting a resume. Our empirical strategy is based on an experimental approach. We sent fictitious...
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attractiveness of our fake job applicants. -- facial attractiveness ; callback rates ; labor market discrimination …
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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 … of this new policy proposal. -- anonymous job applications ; discrimination ; hiring …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088997
We consider in this paper whether the gender mix at the level of decision-makers in firms can influence gender representation at the employee level. We run a laboratory experiment whereby we present a pair of independent employers with applications from two potential employees. We consider...
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