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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India

Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines the impact of state level political reservation for two minority groups – Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for...

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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative...

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Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled: Some Causal Evidence

Baert, Stijn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We evaluate the effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment in Belgium. Our results show that the likelihood of a disabled candidate receiving a positive...

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A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209

Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Proposition 209, enacted in California in 1996 and made effective the following year, ended state affirmative action programs not only in education, but also for public employment and government contracting. This paper uses CPS data and triple difference techniques to take advantage of the...

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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …

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Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes

Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that...

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Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination

Kaas, Leo; Lu, Jun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, but all wage differences become negligible when the taste for discrimination is small. We analyze the effect of an equal …

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Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

Sarnikar, Supriya; Sorensen, Todd; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission’s records, we...

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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy

Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially … operations. This finding is consistent with taste-based theories of discrimination and with commitments made by large firms to …

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The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?

Bell, David; Heitmueller, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …

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