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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in …
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In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...
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Une étude de l'histoire de la discrimination dans l'assurance montre que les données actuarielles sont rarement … suffisantes pour justifier dans le public cette discrimination. On étudie en particulier la discrimination à l'égard des femmes à …'acceptabilité sociale de la discrimination dans les assurances. …
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This study uses the findings of a correspondence testing in order to assess the potential discrimination at job access … resumes in reply to 140 job vacancies advertised at the end of 2006. We find evidence of a significant discrimination against …
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The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...
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experiment, we show the opposite: discrimination goes in favor of females in more male-connoted subjects (e.g. math, philosophy … between science and humanities majors. We identify discrimination by systematic differences in students' scores between oral … each subject and for her overall ability at oral exams. The mechanisms likely to drive this positive discrimination toward …
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economic comparison triggers the actual caste-based behaviours (castes' political demands, discrimination). …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
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Nous mesurons la discrimination à l'embauche selon l'aptitude à la mobilité, signalée dans le CV par la possession d …
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