Homosexuality's Signalling Function in Job Candidate Screening: Why Gay Is (Mostly) OK
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- Sterkens, Philippe & Dalle, Axana & Wuyts, Joey & Pauwels, Ines & Durinck, Hellen & Baertf, Stijn, 2022. "Homosexuality's Signalling Function in Job Candidate Screening: Why Gay is (Mostly) OK," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1090, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
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Keywords
homosexuality; signalling; statistical discrimination; taste-based discrimination; hiring experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2022-06-13 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2022-06-13 (Labour Economics)
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