Search for dissertations about: "discrimination"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 484 swedish dissertations containing the word discrimination.

  2. 1. Discrimination in hiring : Some experiments, perspectives, and implications

    Author : Mark Granberg; Ali Ahmed; David Andersson; Roger Bandick; Doris Weichselbaumer; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Discrimination; Job search; Labor demand; Labor supply; Field experiment; Correspondence test; Transgender people; Gender; Experimental design; Research ethics;

    Abstract : Hiring discrimination is illegal, morally distasteful, and seen as incommensurate with modern societal ideals. From an economic perspective, if employers hire based on anything other than an applicant’s expected productivity they are behaving inefficiently. READ MORE

  4. 2. Do the Ends Justify the Means? : On the Justifiability of Statistical Discrimination

    Author : Viktor Elm-Schulin; Eva Erman; Erik Angner; Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; discrimination; statistical discrimination; profiling; justification; ex-ante; contractualism; consequentialism; demeaning treatment; social meaning; unequal status; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : While statistical discrimination comes with similar objections as other types of discrimination it may also lead to a number of beneficial and important consequences, thereby leaving us with conflicting intuitions regarding the right course of action. This study investigates whether there is any superior account of statistical discrimination that can explain when and why such a practice can be defended; i. READ MORE

  5. 3. Gender, Parenthood, Ethnicity and Discrimination in the Labor Market : Experimental Studies on Discrimination in Recruitment in Sweden

    Author : Anni Erlandsson; Michael Gähler; Magnus Bygren; Karin Halldén; Lynn Prince Cooke; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; discrimination; ethnicity; field experiment; gender; in-group bias; labor market; parenthood; recruitment; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This dissertation uses experimental methods to study hiring discrimination based on gender, parenthood and ethnicity in the Swedish labor market. Also, the role of recruiter gender for gender and ethnic discrimination is studied. READ MORE

  6. 4. Social Hierarchies, Prejudice, and Discrimination

    Author : Alexandra Snellman; Bo Ekehammar; Nazar Akrami; Anders Biel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Psychology; Social dominance orientation; Prejudice; Discrimination; Ethnicity; Gender; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : This thesis is based on three papers where I examine some aspects of ethnic and gender-based prejudice and discrimination in hierarchical situations. In Paper I, the existence of ethnic hierarchies in Sweden is explored. READ MORE

  7. 5. Essays on Discrimination in Hiring

    Author : Magnus Carlsson; Dan-Olof Rooth; Jan Ekberg; Petter Lundborg; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnic discrimination; sex discrimination; sex segregation; correspondence testing; situation testing; field experiments; hiring; job search; exit from unemployment; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays on discrimination in hiring. Essay I (co-authored with Dan-Olof Rooth) present evidence of ethnic discrimination in the recruitment process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings. READ MORE