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Language Skills and Homophilous Hiring Discrimination: Evidence from Gender-and Racially-Differentiated Applications
Edo, Anthony; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Yannelis, Constantine - HAL - 2013
This paper investigates the importance of ethnic homophily in the hiring discrimination process, and provides a novel test for statistical discrimination. Our evidence comes from a correspondence test performed in France, in which we use three different kinds of ethnic identification: French...
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Association of education and receiving social transfers with allostatic load in the Swiss population-based CoLaus study
Nicod, Edouard; Stringhini, Silvia; Marques-Vidal, Pedro; … - HAL - 2014
Background. Allostatic load reflects cumulative exposure to stressors throughout lifetime and has been associated with several adverse health outcomes. It is hypothesized that people with low socioeconomic status (SES) are exposed to higher chronic stress and have therefore greater levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898690
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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission
Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - HAL - 2012
We propose a dynastic model in which individuals are born in an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the role of social networks on the correlation in the parent-child educational status independent of any parent-child interaction. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933827
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Preferences for redistribution : an empirical analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2011
People's preferences for state intervention in social policies vary. A cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data is conducted here to highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand for redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605322
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Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850
Cummins, Neil - HAL - 2009
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738834
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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008
What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738889
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Trends in social mobility in Romania since the Middle of the Twentieth Century. Economical change as an explicative factor of the social mobility.
Ionas, Liliana - HAL - 2008
One of the explanations of the social mobility's growth in industrial countries from Europe and North America since the mid-twenty century is the occupational change due to the modifications produced in the economic sectors. The pattern of upward social mobility can change because the parents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899241
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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008
What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784107
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Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis
Démurger, Sylvie; Gurgand, Marc; Shi, Li; Ximing, Yue - HAL - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930208
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Les effets de la migration sur le chômage marocain : une analyse en équilibre général calculable statique
Karam, Fida; Decaluwé, Bernard - HAL - 2007
La littérature économique récente sur l'impact de la migration sur le pays d'origine n'a pas réussi à analyser l …'effet de la migration sur le chômage et le taux de salaire surtout dans les zones urbaines. A l'aide d'un MEGC détaillé …'émigration marocaine vers l'Union Européenne, l'immigration subsaharienne vers le Maroc et la migration rural-urbain, l'impact sur le taux …
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