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We study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field …
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study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is … worker on ethnic grounds. In addition, we find that the standard theory of statistical discrimination fails to explain … observed choices, and that taking ethnic prejudice into account helps to predict the incidence of discrimination. …
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This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a key economic outcome: female labour supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use an epidemiological approach, studying...
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The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …
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This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital … non-linear model which is estimated, using repeated cross-section data. Using data on immigrants from the former Soviet … Union to Israel, we find that upon arrival, immigrants receive no return for imported skills. In the five years following …
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This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
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This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of...
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of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …
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migrants with a Turkish origin or Central and Eastern European (including Russian) background. Job search theory is used to …
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