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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia
Kahanec, Martin; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
relatively recent displacement may have similar effects as vulnerability rooted deep in the past. When we look at education as …
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The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822622
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Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations among University Students
Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm P.; Redmond, Cathy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150628
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...
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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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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
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Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
Bartos, Vojtech; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy. …
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
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Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Laouénan, Morgane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of … the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run … there is both ethnic and customer discrimination in the French labor market. …
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