Do labour market conditions affect the extent of gender discrimination?

Eva Arceo-Gomez and Raymundo Campos-Vazquez

No wp-2016-80, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The market environment in which discriminatory firms operate may be a relevant determinant of their extent of discrimination. In this paper we aim at analysing the effect of local labour market conditions on a firm's decision to discriminate. We use a direct measure of discrimination using online job advertisements which use ascriptive characteristics (such as gender, age, marital status or even physique) to describe their ideal candidates, to which we will refer as explicit discrimination. In theory, the effect of the unemployment rate on discrimination is ambiguous.

Date: 2016
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