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identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …
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). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …
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-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
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national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a … test. Our data show that Muslim and Christian gender norms are as postulated. However, the correlations between Muslim vs …. Christian immigrants and the channels purported to link in-group gender norms to economic progress are weak and inconsistent …
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outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …
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The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU...
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This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to immigrant selection and settlement policies, there are...
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survey. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several sub-samples: within each gender, a distinction is made …
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workers; and (iv) that among homosexual workers the gender gap is not observed. From this we conclude that the Dutch labor … market does not discriminate on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender in entry level jobs. …
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We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of …
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