Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100035

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150100035

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Affirmative action & its unintended effects: an experimental investigation. Affirmative action policies traditionally favour members of disadvantaged groups in labour markets such as women, elderly, and non-white. They are widely implemented internationally in employment, contracting, and education often despite a lack of knowledge about societal impacts. This project aims to use both field and laboratory experiments to study how individuals react to affirmative action and investigate sabotage, cooperation, and competition between disadvantaged and advantaged groups. The main hypothesis is that affirmative action can increase sabotage, harm cooperation and push competition in ways that endanger the well functioning of labour markets. This project aims to provide new insights for policy makers and managers on the relevance of unintended effects of affirmative action.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2015

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $376,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Labour Economics | Public Economics- Public Choice | Experimental Economics | Applied Economics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Preference, Behaviour and Welfare | Micro Labour Market Issues

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Experimental Economics | Labour Economics | Micro Labour Market Issues | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare | Public Economics- Public Choice

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