Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination: Evidence from a choice experiment

Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert and Eva Derous
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Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect. Most notably, we find that the propensity to discriminate is significantly lower when this penalty is loss-framed rather than gain-framed. From a policy perspective, it could therefore be more effective to financially penalise taste-based discriminators than to incentivise them not to discriminate.

Keywords: taste-based discrimination; employee discrimination; loss aversion; ethnicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 516 pages
Date: 2021-06
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