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 … efforts to reduce discrimination must address employer prejudice. …

more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …

Research has shown that the higher penalties for discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1991 appear to have … induced hiring discrimination. This occurs because employers use the proxy of protected group membership to identify high … reverse the induced discrimination. The mechanism creates a reliable signal of litigation risk to replace the imperfect proxy …

Using a lab experiment which simulates a labor market and does not use deception, we investigate racial discrimination … for employee selection. We find that discrimination against Blacks persists even when information about candidate … abilities is known. The experiment design allows us to observe within-subject variation in discrimination based on different …

employees and to make promotion recommendations. I find that there is discrimination against overweight workers when bonuses are … for being overweight. If bonuses are a measure of employee taste-based discrimination, these results suggest that some of … the weight penalty seen in observational studies is the result of employee taste-based discrimination …