The glass drop ceiling: composition effects or implicit discrimination?
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Keywords
implicit discrimination; risk aversion; self-esteem; gender; multiple-choice tests.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LMA-2013-12-06 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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