Is it sex or personality? the impact of sex stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
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In this article, the authors adopt correspondence testing to investigate the impact of usually unobservable variables, such as personality traits that are more commonly associated with men than women in general.Abstract:
This paper goes one step further than previous experimental studies by adopting correspondence testing to investigate the impact of usually unobservable variables. When testing for discrimination it may not be sufficient to control for human capital only. Specific personality traits that are more commonly associated with men than women in general seem to contribute to success particularly in many attractive, highly paid jobs. A successful manager, for example, is supposed to be ambitious, competitive, and dominant, which are stereotypically masculine traits. Alternatively, stereotypically feminine characteristics are preferred in many traditionally female occupations. A good nurse or kindergarten teacher, for example, seems to requireread more
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Pride and prejudice: employment discrimination against openly gay men in the United States.
TL;DR: This article presents the first large-scale audit study of discrimination against openly gay men in the United States, covering multiple regions and highlighting how audit techniques may be used to identify stereotypes that affect employment decisions in real labor markets.
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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Six Thousand Résumés
TL;DR: This article found substantial discrimination across a variety of occupations towards applicants with foreign experience or those with Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, and Greek names compared with English names, and listed language fluency, multinational firm experience, education from highly selective schools, or active extracurricular activities had no diminishing effect.
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Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination
TL;DR: There has been substantial growth in experimental research on labor market discrimination, although the earliest experiments were done decades ago as mentioned in this paper. But far more of it is done in the field, which makes this particular area of experimental research unique relative to the explosion of experimental economic research more generally.
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Why labour market experiments
Armin Falk,Ernst Fehr +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the advantages of experiments for labour economics and discuss frequent objections to experiments, such as a potential subject pool bias, the stake levels used in experiments, the number of observations as well as internal and external validity.
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Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult
TL;DR: The authors empirically test the cross-sectional relationship between hiring discrimination and labor market tightness at the level of the occupation and find that, compared to natives, candidates with a foreign sounding name are equally often invited to a job interview if they apply for occupations for which vacancies are difficult to fill, but they have to send twice as many applications for jobs for which labor markets tightness is low.
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as mentioned in this paper are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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The measurement of psychological androgyny.
TL;DR: A new sex-role inventory is described that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or "androgynous" as a function of the difference between his or her endorsement of masculine and feminine personality characteristics.
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Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the average extent of discrimination against female workers in the United States and provide a quantitative assessment of the sources of male-female wage differentials in the same occupation.
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Wage Discrimination: Reduced Form and Structural Estimates
TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction is drawn between reduced form and structural wage equations, and both are estimated They are shown to have very different implications for analyzing the white-black and male-female wage differentials.
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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.