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Hiring a Gay Man, Taking a Risk?: A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion.
- Source :
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Journal of homosexuality [J Homosex] 2018; Vol. 65 (8), pp. 1015-1031. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Sep 19. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labor market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers take a fictitious hiring decision concerning a heterosexual or homosexual male job candidate. In addition, participants are surveyed on their risk aversion and other characteristics that might correlate with this risk aversion. Analysis of the (post-)experimental data confirms our hypothesis. The likelihood of a beneficial hiring decision for homosexual male candidates decreases by 31.7% when employers are a standard deviation more risk-averse.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1540-3602
- Volume :
- 65
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of homosexuality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28841095
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1364950