This chapter surveys the literature of the past 20 years on group identity and intergroup bias
which serve as important underpinnings for labor market discrimination. Main economic …

Models of statistical discrimination typically assume that employers make rational inference
from (education) signals. However, there is a large amount of evidence showing that most …

We explore the impact of migrant inventors on patent quality in Europe and the United States
between 1990 and 2010. Drawing on a large sample of patent applications filed at the …

While statistical discrimination theory is often proposed as an important explanation for
ethnic discrimination in hiring, research that empirically scrutinizes its underlying …

This paper reviews work that tests (1) how formal and informal institutions, and especially
their interaction, affect participation in the shadow economy in transition countries; and (2) …

We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills
distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving …

There is still little research about the association of anti-immigrant attitudes with ethnic
discrimination. In this study we investigate whether there is more rental discrimination …

This article analyses old-age discrimination in managers' hypothetical hiring decisions. We
expect that older job candidates are less likely to be hired than equally qualified younger …

Field experiments have provided ample evidence of ethnic and racial discrimination in the
labour market. Less is known about how discrimination varies in multi-ethnic societies …

Economic frictions pervade the founding, financing, growing, and exiting of high-growth
entrepreneurial firms. This article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but …