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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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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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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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We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … (a more established migrant group) suffering less discrimination than Chinese and Middle Easterners (who have typically …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
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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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value basis for the beauty premium, and it appears that this is a form of insidious discrimination. …
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limit discrimination in the workplace based on race, gender, disability and age. If such measures are to be effective in … ending discrimination, they need to be enforced. The latter is dependent on state and federal agencies such as the Equal … important role in the evolution of anti-discrimination policy since past decisions create future precedent. This paper asks …
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US. Furthermore, using US data, we find that the discrimination against the unemployed increased over the 1980's in those …
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