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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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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
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Analysis of Gender Wage Differential in China's Urban Labor Market
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …, followed by their working experience. On the other hand, education acts as a contributor for discrimination in the labor market. …
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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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