作者:BYRNE, D. A. V. I. D. P.; MARTIN, L. E. S. L. I. E. A.; NAH, J. I. A. S. H. E. E. N.
作者单位:University of Melbourne
摘要:We use a field experiment to study price discrimination in a market with price posting and negotiation. Motivated by concerns that low-income consumers do poorly in markets with privately negotiated prices, we built a call center staffed with actors armed with bargaining scripts to reveal negotiated prices and their determinants. Our actors implement sequential bargaining games under incomplete information in the field. By experimentally manipulating how information is revealed, we generate se...
作者:Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna
作者单位:Uppsala University; Stockholm University
摘要:We describe how sexual harassment contributes to sex segregation and pay inequality in the labor market. Combining nationally representative survey data and administrative data, we show that both harassment and wages vary strongly and systematically across workplaces. Women self-report more harassment from colleagues and managers in male-dominated workplaces where wages are relatively high, and men self-report more harassment in female-dominated workplaces where wages are low. These patterns i...