National payroll data reveal that men are paid more than women when they enter firms in Great Britain. Although this hiring wage gap has narrowed over the past two decades, it still accounts for over two-thirds of the steady-state gender pay gap – the wage gap that would eventually...

Occupational segregation between men and women and between rural and urban areas is a persistent driver of labor market inequality in Europe. Women and rural workers are often overrepresented in lower-paid and lower-status occupations, reflecting structural barriers to occupational mobility....

This study investigates whether employers in an online hiring experiment exhibit discrimination based on workers' accents that indicate English is not their primary language. To assess accent bias, we implement a randomized treatment design in which participants acting as employers are assigned...

"Just cause" policies aim to discourage the arbitrary firing of employees. Recent efforts at passing such laws in the U.S. have been motivated by deterring discrimination. This paper presents a framework to study the effects of just cause when managers engage in taste-based discrimination. The...

We investigate how much individuals value a workplace that doesn't tolerate hostility, and how these preferences affect sorting in the labor market. We conduct a choice experiment involving 2,048 participants recruited from recent graduates and alumni from a large public university. Our results...

This paper revisits the statistical discrimination model of Phelps (1972) to explain why a gender wage gap emerges immediately at labour-market entry, despite women's superior academic performance. We focus on graduates and extend the framework by adding a productivity-relevant attribute...

This paper addresses the disproportional effects of digitalisation across age by investigating: (i) withinjob age segregation in tasks by digital intensity; (ii) within-job age disparities in digital upskilling; (iii) age inequalities in wage returns to digital job tasks; and (iv) the role of...

The sentiment among refugees in Germany has changed significantly: Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2016 to 2023, it can be seen that refugees have been feeling increasingly unwelcome since 2018, while their concerns about xenophobia have grown since 2019. In addition, cross-sectional...

The past half century has witnessed widespread gender convergence across many labor market outcomes, including hours worked, earnings, and occupations. However, this paper shows that, over the same period, men's and women's sectors of employment actually diverged. We decompose the rise in...

This paper examines the wage differentials between local and migrant workers in urban areas of the People's Republic of China. Using unique data from a survey that was designed to be representative of migrants and local residents, the study finds that, without considering differences in the...

Despite the massive incorporation of women into the labor market, equal pay for equal work remains a challenge. This article analyzes the influence of gender diversity in management positions on the gender wage gap (GWG) throughout the entire pay scale in Spain. The results show the existence of...

Bellemare et al. (2023b) examine discrimination against individuals with physical disabilities in the labor market in Quebec, Canada. Their findings indicate that callbacks from potential employers decrease by 25 percentage points if physical disability is (randomly) revealed. Callbacks increase...