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Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From a Field Experiment

Booth, Alison L; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia -- a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and...

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison L; Leigh, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.

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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

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Markups in the Labour and Product Markets and the Relative Performance of Industry and Services: Italy 1951-90

Brunello, Giorgio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

product and in labour markets, in the determination of sectoral employment growth in Italy during the last forty years (1951 … markets were quantitatively more important than changes in product markets in the determination of sectoral employment growth … remained constant after 1973, our simulations suggest that, on average, industrial and service employment would have been …

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Ethnic Parity in Labour Market Outcomes for Benefit Claimants

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Mesnard, Alice; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …

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More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the United States

Checchi, Daniele; Ichino, Andrea; Rustichini, Aldo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

A state school system should be expected to reduce income inequality and to make intergenerational mobility easier. It is therefore somewhat surprising to observe that Italy, in comparison to the United States, displays less inequality between occupational incomes, but lower intergenerational...

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