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IZA Discussion Paper No. 13523
Is Labour Market Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities Better Explained by Taste or Statistics? A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence
Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert, Abel Ghekiere, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Eva Derous
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13514
As If It Weren't Hard Enough Already: Breaking down Hiring Discrimination Following Burnout
Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Claudia Rooman, Eva Derous
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12849
What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?
Hannah Van Borm, Ian Burn, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11125
Human Capital, Signaling, and Employer Learning: What Insights Do We Gain from Regression Discontinuity Designs?
Georg Graetz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10911
University Selectivity, Initial Job Quality, and Longer-Run Salary
Russell Weinstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9649
Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities
Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic
revised version published as 'Does it Pay to Care? Volunteering and Employment Opportunities' in: Journal of Population Economics [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9597
Local Signals and the Returns to Foreign Education
Massimiliano Tani
new version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 174-190.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9536
Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion
Stijn Baert
revised version published as 'Hiring a Gay Man, Taking a Risk?: A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion' in: Journal of Homosexuality [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8826
A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes
Andy Feng, Georg Graetz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8602
Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
Luca Flabbi, Mario Macis, Andrea Moro, Fabiano Schivardi
published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (622), 2390-2423
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8319
Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?
Stijn Baert, Ann-Sophie De Pauw
revised version published in: Economics Letters [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8185
The Gender-Career Estimation Gap
Lutz C. Kaiser
published in: M. Connerley, J. Wu (eds.), The Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women, Springer 2016, pp. 429-448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5961
Why Are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice-President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence 1997-2007
Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith, Mette Verner
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 380-408
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5474
The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Barbara Mueller, Stefan C. Wolter
published as 'The Role of Hard-to-Obtain Information on Ability for the School-to-Work Transition' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46(4), 1447-1471
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3810
Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring
Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
revised version published as: "Experimental evidence of discrimination in the hiring of first- and second-generation immigrants", Labour, 2010, 24(3), 263-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3533
Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company
Christian Pfeifer, Tatjana Sohr
published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (2), 257-282
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2305
Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis
David L. Dickinson, Ronald L. Oaxaca
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76 (1), 16-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1944
Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender
Justin Wolfers
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (2-3), 531-541
IZA Discussion Paper No. 778
Employer Learning and Schooling-Related Statistical Discrimination in Britain
Fernando Galindo-Rueda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 342
The Virtue of Being Underestimated: A Note on Discriminatory Contracts in Hidden Information Models
Wendelin Schnedler
published in: Economics Letters, 2002, 75 (2), 171-178
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