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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers
Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to answer to three main questions regarding the international mobility of young researchers during the post-doc period: Are there differences among genders? Does “family” have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556413
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Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making
Fryer, Roland G.; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
smaller (minority) groups. We then apply the model to understand simple forms of discrimination and social identity. It is … shown that discrimination in hiring can result from such cognitive processes even when there is no malevolent taste to do so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135029
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Hiring discrimination in the French financial sector: an econometric analysis on field experiment data
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Pascale, PETIT - EconWPA - 2004
We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled … compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408369
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Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition
Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001
Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556832
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It … covering the period 1979 to 1997. The results suggest that the deterioration in the assimilation of recent immigrants is partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408346
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It … covering the period 1979 to 1997. The results suggest that the deterioration in the assimilation of recent immigrants is partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408360
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Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Skuterud, Mikal - EconWPA - 2004
experience which has occurred almost exclusively among immigrants originating from non-traditional source countries. We are able … to explain two-thirds of the overall decline in the entry earnings of Canada’s most recent immigrants without any …’s immigrants who arrived in the 1995-1999 period would otherwise be enjoying entry earnings that were significantly higher than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408361
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Trends in the Youth Labour Market in Developing and Transition Countries
O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005
This paper looks at youth labour market trends concentrating on developing and transition countries. Questions relating to the integration of young people into decent work have in recent times once again begun to occupy a central position in Government Policy issues. Recently co-ordinated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556800
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Migration and Regional Disparities: the Role of Skill Biased Flows
Fratesi, Ugo; Riggi, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2004
The persistence of disparities is one of the most striking features of regional development. We argue that movements of labour force, instead of being an always equilibrating mechanism, can also make persistent or even reinforce such inequalities. The most advanced regions are in fact generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556209
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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth
Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999
This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125046