Arbeitspapier

Game of Prejudice – Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin

In an unique lab-in-the-field experiment we design a novel labor market environment, the Game of Prejudice, to elicit preferences for discrimination towards the largest minority group in Europe (the Roma) at the intensive margins as well as at the extensive margins. Our unique experiment design allows us to separate taste-based discrimination from statistical discrimination and examine the impacts of raising the costs of discrimination in such situations. We find discrimination to be commonplace at both margins, with stronger incidence at the extensive margin. We also find higher incidence of taste-based discrimination compared to statistical discrimination. Importantly, we find that when the cost of taste-based discrimination is made sufficiently high, such behaviour disappears at the intensive and extensive margins, providing support for labor market policies that make discrimination very costly for the employer.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 499

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
discrimination
extensive margin
intensive margin
lab-in-the field experiment
Slovakia

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dasgupta, Utteeyo
Mani, Subha
Vecci, Joe
Želinský, Tomáš
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:25 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dasgupta, Utteeyo
  • Mani, Subha
  • Vecci, Joe
  • Želinský, Tomáš
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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