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Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release

Mechoulan, Stéphane; Sahuguet, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … system. Further evidence rules out post-release discrimination. We propose different hypotheses to account for the evidence. …

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Diversity and Public Goods: a Natural Experiment with Exogeneous Residential Allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: an Empirical Analysis

Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …

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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 perspective, it is important to know whether this gap is due to differences in the characteristics of White and Ethnic Minority groups (which reduce the employability of Ethnic...

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The Bank's Market Power and the Interest Rate Elasticity of Demand for Housing: An Econometric Study of Discrimination on French Mortgage Data

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Larribeau, Sophie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We specify several variants of a structural econometric model explaining mortgage interest rates and loan sizes simultaneously. The models are estimated by simultaneous equation methods with a sample of loan files originated from a French mortgage lender. They yield estimates of the...

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Gender Interactions Within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...

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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behaviour out of …

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What Can Be Learned from Crisis-Era Protectionism? An Initial Assessment

Evenett, Simon J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some long-standing features of protectionism appear to have endured (such as the distribution of...

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