Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process?
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Labor market discrimination; sexual orientation; field experiment;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2011-12-19 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2011-12-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2011-12-19 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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