Does the gender mix among employers influence who gets hired? A labor market experiment
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Keywords
discrimination; hiring; IAT; implicit attitudes; gender quotas; labor markets; employment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- J78 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Public Policy (including comparable worth)
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2015-06-27 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CBE-2015-06-27 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2015-06-27 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2015-06-27 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2015-06-27 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
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