dc.contributor.author | Charness, Gary | |
dc.contributor.author | Cobo-Reyes, Ramón | |
dc.contributor.author | Sanches, Ángela | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-01T06:41:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-01T06:41:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11073/9231 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper studies experimentally anticipated discrimination across gender, hiring patterns, and performance in tasks with different stereotypes in a labor-market setting. Participants are assigned to a seven-people group and randomly allocated a role as a firm or worker. In each group, there are five workers and two firms. The only information firms have about each worker is a self-selected avatar (male, female or neutral) representing a worker's gender. Each firm then decides which worker to hire. Female workers anticipate discrimination when they know the task is math-related, but not otherwise. Men choose similar avatar patterns regardless of the task. Surprisingly, we find no evidence whatsoever of discrimination against females in hiring; in fact female avatars are more likely to be hired. Men do perform at much higher levels in the math-related task, but there is no difference in performance in the emotion-recognition task, where there is a strong female stereotype. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | American University of Sharjah | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | School of Business Administration Working Paper Series | en_US |
dc.subject | Gender stereotypes | en_US |
dc.subject | Discrimination | en_US |
dc.subject | Hiring patterns | en_US |
dc.title | Anticipated Discrimination, Choices, and Performance: Experimental evidence | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |