Ethnicity- and sex-based discrimination and the maintenance of self-esteem.

The psychological underpinnings of labor market discrimination were investigated by having participants from Israel, the West Bank and Germany (N = 205) act as employers in a stylized employment task in which they ranked, set wages, and imposed a minimum effort level on applicants. State self-esteem...

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Main Authors: Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Gari Walkowitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124622