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Gender discrimination in China: Experimental evidence from the job market for college graduates

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Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined employment-related gender discrimination during the initial stages of a hiring process and found that female applicants are less likely to be invited by hiring firms to on-site interviews as compared with their male counterparts.
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This article is published in Journal of Comparative Economics.The article was published on 2021-09-01. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Role congruity theory & Statistical discrimination.

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Gender bias in team-building activities in China

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored how gender influences peer assessment in team-building activities in China, and found that men were more likely to receive better peer assessment than women.
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Effects of discrimination in the workplace on turnover rate

TL;DR: In this paper , a conceptual literature review is presented to summarize the past studies on discrimination and turnover rate and to analyze the impact of workplace discrimination on job satisfaction and turnover intentions, finding that both females and males experienced gender discrimination in the workplace.
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Decoding Factors That Contribute to Gender Discrimination in Modern Dwelling Architecture in Nigeria

TL;DR: In this paper , the existence and factors that predict gender discrimination in Nigeria's architecture industry were determined. And the results showed that several constraining factors, including sociocultural norms, values, and religious elements, contributed to the low involvement and gender-based workplace discrimination in professional architecture.
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The Economics of Discrimination

TL;DR: The second edition of "The Economics of Discrimination" has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems remaining as discussed by the authors.
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The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism.

TL;DR: The theory of racial and sexual discrimination in the labor market was first introduced by Arrow as mentioned in this paper, who introduced the Inflation Policy and Unemployment Theory (INPT) and introduced the first formalization of the theory in terms of exact statistical models.
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Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

TL;DR: The authors study race in the labor market by sending fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers and find that white names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews than African-Americans.

economics of discrimination

TL;DR: The second edition of The Economics of Discrimination has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years and some of the more important problems remaining.
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What are the current statistics of gender discrimination in China?

The paper does not provide current statistics on gender discrimination in China. The paper focuses on examining employment-related gender discrimination in the job market for college graduates in China.