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Un-Nudging Pay Gaps: The Role of Pay Raise Budget Framing

Accounting Review
Pay gaps, like gender or racial gaps, violate the widely held belief that employees should receive equal pay for equal work. This study examines whether a common control choice—framing pay raise budgets in percentages—contributes to perpetuating pay ...
Hayden T. Gunnell, Karl Schuhmacher, Kristy L. Towry   +2 more
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Does corruption hinder female political participation? Evidence from a measure against organized crime

Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2022
This article analyzes the effect of anti-corruption measures on female political empowerment. We exploit a measure that prescribes the dissolution of city councils for mafia infiltration, leading to an exogenous decrease in the level of corruption ...
A. L. Baraldi, Carla Ronza
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Within-Firm Job Description Wage Gaps: The Implications for Financial Performance

Social Science Research Network
We study within-firm and job-type wage gaps arising from words in job descriptions using a natural language processing technique (word2vec) on proprietary US job-level wage data from publicly traded companies spanning two decades. Analyzing nearly half a
Spencer Barnes
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Racial Inequality in France

Social Science Research Network
We study racial inequality in 21 st century France. Using parents’ nationality at birth, we overcome the lack of ethno-racial statistics stemming from the country’s “color-blind” approach.
Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, Ellora Derenoncourt   +2 more
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Gender in Economics Fifty Years Ago and Today: Feminist Economists Speak

The Review of Radical Political Economics, 2022
Fifty years ago, women endured blatant discrimination, hostility, and exclusion in economics. Marginalized, they founded institutions that allowed feminist economics to flourish and contributed groundbreaking work.
Marlene Kim
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The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street

Journal of Financial Economics
This paper provides novel evidence that female politicians affect the distribution of government spending to women-owned firms. Exploiting close elections to address endogeneity, we show that female House Representatives increase the proportion of U.S ...
Jonathan Brogaard, N. Gerasimova, M. Rohrer   +2 more
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How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-To-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes

Social Science Research Network
We test for labor market discrimination based on an understudied characteristic: name fluency. Analysis of recent economics PhD job candidates indicates that name difficulty is negatively related to the probability of landing an academic or tenure-track ...
Q. Ge, Stephen Wu
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Learning to Discriminate on the Job

Social Science Research Network, 2022
Using administrative records from a large national US retailer, we find managers learn to discriminate “on the job” as they gain experience hiring workers of different races. First, we find that positive and negative experiences with black hires seed the
Alan Benson, L. LePage
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A Review of Thomas Sowell’s Discrimination and Disparities

Journal of Economic Literature, 2021
In Discrimination and Disparities, Thomas Sowell describes how economists think about the causes of disparities in socioeconomic outcomes. He cautions against government intervention to reduce disparities, noting that such interventions often have ...
Jennifer L. Doleac
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Do Comparisons of Fictional Applicants Measure Discrimination When Search Externalities are Present? Evidence from Existing Experiments

Economic Journal, 2019
Researchers commonly use fictional applicants to measure discrimination. However, such experiments can confound discrimination against an individual’s characteristics with employers’ responses to the composition of the applicant pool.
D. Phillips
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