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Income Distribution and labour Market Discrimination : A Case Study of Namibia.

Ekstrom, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

endowment and discrimination components using techniques by Oaxaca (1973) and Oaxaca and Ransom (1994). …

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Income Distribution and Labour Market Discrimination: A Case Study of Namibia

Ekström, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

. The estimated earnings differences are decomposed into endowment and discrimination components using techniques by Oaxaca … estimates we find that accounting for selection does not affect the endowment component, but do affect the discrimination …

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Height and Leadership

Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...

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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies

Fang, Hanming; Norman, Peter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...

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Employer Attitudes towards Refugee Immigrants

Lundborg, Per; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

performance, wage setting and discrimination. Generally, firms report positive experiences of having refugees as employees, but we … discrimination of them by staff or customers. While most firms agree with statements that wage cuts negatively affect worker cohesion …

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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies.

Fang, H.; Norman, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the …

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Gender, Wages, and Social Security in China’s Industrial Sector

Rickne, Johanna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

discrimination is thereby rejected. Equal average wages between men and women are found among firms located in China’s Special …

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Reversion to the Racial Mean and Mortgate Discrimination

Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

comparing racial outcomes leads to an overestimation of discrimination or even a false finding of discrimination where there is … discrimination in the standard loan approval model is reduced for both African-Americans and Hispanics. Applying the same method to … home ownership and mortgage holding regressions we find that the dummy variable generally interpreted as discrimination is …

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Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Labor Market Gaps between Immigrants and Natives in the OECD

Bergh, Andreas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine potential explanations of these gaps. Results are obtained for 21–28 countries using bivariate correlations, OLS-regressions and Bayesian model averaging over all 512...

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