Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations

Economics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 236-238

  Booth, Alison ^a,b   Leigh, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Employment; Field experiments; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950959485     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.034     Document Type: Article

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