Is It How You Look or Speak That Matters? “An Experimental Study Exploring the Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination”
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Keywords
Experiment; Appearance; Speech; Beliefs; Performance; Stereotypes;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2013-04-13 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-DEM-2013-04-13 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2013-04-13 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2013-04-13 (Labour Economics)
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