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Customer discrimination in the fast food market? : experimental evidence from a Swedish university campus
Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2018
This paper studies customer discrimination against fictive male and female food truck owners with Arabic names on a Swedish University campus using a web-based experiment.Students at a Swedish university campus were asked to participate in a market survey and state if they think it is a good...
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Measuring Racial and Ethnic Representation in 21st Century High Technology Self-employment
Atkins, Rachel M. B.; Burrage, April - 2022
technology sector employees, however; racial and ethnic disparities in technology entrepreneurship are not well documented or … in tech entrepreneurship. Conversely, unfavorable tech labor market conditions for underrepresented and minoritized … groups could push them to pursue entrepreneurship or self-employment as an alternative. This study is the first to …
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The impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
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The impacts of Covid-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336469
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Black entrepreneurs, job creation, and financial constraints
Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, Kyung Min; Brown, J. David; Earle, … - 2021
Black-owned businesses tend to operate with less finance and employ fewer workers than those owned by Whites. Motivated by a simple conceptual framework, we document these facts and show they are causally connected using large firm-level surveys linked to universal employer data from the Census...
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Credit Cards, Race and Entrepreneurship
Chatterji, Aaron; Seamans, Robert - 2014
This paper examines the impact of financial deregulation on entrepreneurship. We assess the impact of credit card …
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Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...
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Do reported attitudes towards Immigrants predict ethnic discrimination?
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2012
Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...
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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments
van Ewijk, Reyn - 2010
Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...
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Migranten in Deutschland: soziale Unterschiede hemmen Integration
de Groot, Olaf J.; Sager, Lutz - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 49, pp. 2-9
Zuwanderer aus nichtwestlichen Ländern wohnen häufig unter sich. Diese "räumliche Segregation" ist aber nicht unbedingt ein Zeichen für mangelnden Integrationswillen. Sie scheint vielmehr zu einem großen Teil erklärbar durch soziale Unterschiede zwischen einheimischen Deutschen und den...
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