Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?

Artikel

Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic change when all agents acquire more of it. Decision-makers seem to respond more to absolute than to relative differences among individuals. Weaker results show that an increase in the mean of a characteristic's distribution does not alter market responses to differences in it.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: IZA Journal of Labor Economics ; ISSN: 2193-8997 ; Volume: 1 ; Year: 2012 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Discrimination ; Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
• Thema: Beauty ; Height ; Discrimination ; Market responses ; Diskriminierung ; Biologische Daten ; Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung ; Schätzung ; USA ; Niederlande

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hamermesh, Daniel S.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1186/2193-8997-1-2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92271
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ