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The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe - as well as one of the most disadvantaged. A triple vicious circle …, leading to ill-chosen policies; and segmentation is perpetuated through (statistical) discrimination. A severe lack of data …
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suburbs. We find evidences of significant hiring discrimination against applicants of North African origin, regardless of …
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Roma account for almost one-tenth of the population in the Slovak Republic. They live mostly excluded from the general … exclusion in almost all aspects of everyday life. Only a small share of Roma work, and a majority suffer from long spells of … rising general animosity and mistrust between Roma and non-Roma groups. This calls for immediate policy action. The …
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Discrimination in the housing market may create large economic inefficiencies and unfair individual outcomes, but is … methodology in order to facilitate a test of to what extent the measured degree of discrimination depends on applicant, landlord … gender, ethnicity, age, and employment status in the Swedish rental market for apartments. Our results confirm the existence …
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Is India’s high fractionalization associated with mistrust between its two main religious communities? An inter-ethnic trust game field experiment confirms intergroup bias in mutually lower offers between urban Muslims and Hindus in Mumbai. There are no differences in trustworthiness based on...
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We find that landlords practice subtle discrimination in the rental housing market through the use of language …
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from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and … distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant differences in callback rates by ethnicity. These differences vary …
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labour market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal …
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of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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