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Yumei He - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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hukou status and individual level Labor Market Discrimination an experiment in china
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020Co-Authors: Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, Yumei HeAbstract:This article examines Discrimination based on hukou status, a legal construct that segregates locals and migrants in urban China. Local and migrant household helpers were recruited as experimental participants to interact in a standard gift exchange game (GEG) as well as a new variant of the GEG, called the wage promising game (WPG). The WPG uses non-binding wage offers and final wages that employers set after observing effort. In the GEG, both statistical and preference-based Discrimination may motivate employers to offer lower wages to migrants than to locals, whereas in the WPG the statistical motive is excluded. Results reveal Discrimination against migrants and show that preference-based Discrimination is an important employer motive.
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public policy and individual Labor Market Discrimination an artefactual field experiment in china
2012Co-Authors: Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, Yumei HeAbstract:We study Discrimination based on the hukou system, a policy segregating migrants and locals in urban China. We hired household aids as participants in our artefactual field experiment and use a gift exchange game to study Labor Market Discrimination. We fi nd that social Discrimination based on hukou status also implies individual level Discrimination. To identify whether Discrimination is statistical or taste-based we introduce the wage promising game, a gift exchange game with a cheap talk wage promise. We find that Discrimination is taste-based: Status is exogenous for our participants, migrants and locals behave similarly and Discrimination increases when reasons for statistical Discrimination are removed.
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institutional and individual Labor Market Discrimination based on hukou status an artefactual field experiment
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association and 66th European Meeting of the Econometric Society:, 2012Co-Authors: Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, Yumei HeAbstract:We study Discrimination based on the hukou system that segregates citizens in groups of migrants and locals in urban China. We use an artefactual field experiment with a Labor Market framing. We recruit workers on their real Labor Market as experimental participants and investigate if official Discrimination motivates individual Discrimination based on hukou status. In our experimental results we observe Discrimination based on the hukou characteristic: however, statistical Discrimination does not seem to be the source of this, as status is exogeneous for our participants and migrants and locals behave similarly. Furthermore, Discrimination increases between two experimental frameworks when motives for statistical Discrimination are removed.
David Neumark - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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experimental research on Labor Market Discrimination
Journal of Economic Literature, 2018Co-Authors: David NeumarkAbstract:Understanding whether Labor Market Discrimination explains inferior Labor Market outcomes for many groups has drawn the attention of Labor economists for decades – at least since the publication of Gary Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination in 1957. The decades of research on Discrimination in Labor Markets began with a regression-based “decomposition” approach, asking whether raw wage or earnings differences between groups – which might constitute prima facie evidence of Discrimination – were in fact attributable to other productivity-related factors. Subsequent research – responding in large part to limitations of the regression-based approach – moved on to other approaches, such as using firm-level data to estimate both marginal productivity and wage differentials. In recent years, however, there has been substantial growth in experimental research on Labor Market Discrimination – although the earliest experiments were done decades ago. Some experimental research on Labor Market Discrimination takes place in the lab. 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. This paper surveys the full range of experimental literature on Labor Market Discrimination, places it in the context of the broader research literature on Labor Market Discrimination, discusses the experimental literature from many different perspectives (empirical, theoretical, and policy), and reviews both what this literature has taught us thus far, and what remains to be done.
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using matched employer employee data to study Labor Market Discrimination
Chapters, 2005Co-Authors: David Neumark, Judith K HellersteinAbstract:Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially commissioned papers in this volume, all by distinguished contributors, present the full range of issues related to this complex and challenging problem.
Paul Burstein - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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equal employment opportunity Labor Market Discrimination and public policy
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1995Co-Authors: Anne E Winkler, Paul BursteinAbstract:Although equal employment opportunity laws are often at the center of political debate, it has been difficult for students, teachers, and concerned citizens to learn about the controversy over EEO. Contributions to our understanding are scattered, this collection of writings is a broad interdisciplinary introduction to the struggle for EEO and its consequences. No other collection brings together articles on theories of dis-criminations; competing theories about the likely impact of EEO laws; analyses of the laws' impact on women, blacks, and other minorities; and debates about affirmative action.
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Intergroup conflict, law, and the concept of Labor Market Discrimination
Sociological Forum, 1990Co-Authors: Paul BursteinAbstract:This article begins by reviewing problems that arise in attempts to operationalize standard social scientific definitions of Labor Market Discrimination. It then argues that some of these problems occur because conventional studies of Discrimination pay insufficient attention to the role of cultural contests and social and political conflict in disputes over what constitutes fair treatment in the Labor Market. It proposes a way to reconceptualize “Labor Market Discrimination” that takes conflict into account and suggests that much could be learned about Labor Market Discrimination by examining how such conflict is expressed in legal disputes occurring under the equal employment opportunity laws. The examination of such conflict also provides a way to link political struggle with Labor Market outcomes.
Uwe Dulleck - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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hukou status and individual level Labor Market Discrimination an experiment in china
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020Co-Authors: Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, Yumei HeAbstract:This article examines Discrimination based on hukou status, a legal construct that segregates locals and migrants in urban China. Local and migrant household helpers were recruited as experimental participants to interact in a standard gift exchange game (GEG) as well as a new variant of the GEG, called the wage promising game (WPG). The WPG uses non-binding wage offers and final wages that employers set after observing effort. In the GEG, both statistical and preference-based Discrimination may motivate employers to offer lower wages to migrants than to locals, whereas in the WPG the statistical motive is excluded. Results reveal Discrimination against migrants and show that preference-based Discrimination is an important employer motive.
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public policy and individual Labor Market Discrimination an artefactual field experiment in china
2012Co-Authors: Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, Yumei HeAbstract:We study Discrimination based on the hukou system, a policy segregating migrants and locals in urban China. We hired household aids as participants in our artefactual field experiment and use a gift exchange game to study Labor Market Discrimination. We fi nd that social Discrimination based on hukou status also implies individual level Discrimination. To identify whether Discrimination is statistical or taste-based we introduce the wage promising game, a gift exchange game with a cheap talk wage promise. We find that Discrimination is taste-based: Status is exogenous for our participants, migrants and locals behave similarly and Discrimination increases when reasons for statistical Discrimination are removed.
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institutional and individual Labor Market Discrimination based on hukou status an artefactual field experiment
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association and 66th European Meeting of the Econometric Society:, 2012Co-Authors: Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, Yumei HeAbstract:We study Discrimination based on the hukou system that segregates citizens in groups of migrants and locals in urban China. We use an artefactual field experiment with a Labor Market framing. We recruit workers on their real Labor Market as experimental participants and investigate if official Discrimination motivates individual Discrimination based on hukou status. In our experimental results we observe Discrimination based on the hukou characteristic: however, statistical Discrimination does not seem to be the source of this, as status is exogeneous for our participants and migrants and locals behave similarly. Furthermore, Discrimination increases between two experimental frameworks when motives for statistical Discrimination are removed.
B Y Cheon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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multinational firms Labor Market Discrimination and the capture of competitive advantage by exploiting the social divide
Administrative Science Quarterly, 2019Co-Authors: Jordan I Siegel, Lynn Pyun, B Y CheonAbstract:The organizational theory of the multinational firm holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on Labor Market Discrimination suggests that exploiting the bigotry of others can be a source of competitive advantage. We seek to turn the former literature somewhat on its head by building on insights from the latter. Specifically, we argue that multinationals wield a particularly significant competitive weapon: as outsiders, they can identify social schisms in host Labor Markets and exploit them for their own competitive advantage. Using two unique data sets from South Korea, we show that in the 2000s multinationals have derived significant advantage in the form of improved profitability by aggressively hiring an excluded group, women, in the local managerial Labor Market. Our results are economically meaningful, realistic in size, and robust to the inclusion of firm fixed effects. Multinationals, even those whose home Markets discriminate against women, often show signs of having seen the strategic opportunity. Though the host Market is moving toward a new equilibrium freer of Discrimination, that movement is relatively slow, presenting a multiyear competitive opportunity for multinationals.
