Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The Importance of Skills and Positivity in Reducing Gender and Racial Disparities in the Online Workplace
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2025-01-07
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As a result of discrimination, victims suffer many injustices, including limited employment opportunities, lower wages for work of equal value, and being at the bottom of the labor market. In this study, we leveraged a unique dataset of 27,871 profiles from Upwork to understand how to minimize disparities in the online workplace by presenting user skills and positive emotions on their profiles. Our findings suggest that while women and minorities earn less than their male and white counterparts, ceteris paribus, increasing the number of skills on their profiles reduces these disparities for Black and Asian Freelancers. Furthermore., increasing the positivity (joyful emotion) on their profiles further reduces the disparity for Blacks. Furthermore, the effects are reduced for Asians when they increase the number of skills on their profiles. These findings have several implications for research.
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Changing Nature of Work – More Inclusive Labor Markets and Work Practices through Digital Transformation, bias, freelance, joy, skills, upwork
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Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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