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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: Evidence from an Internet-based search channel

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from … nobserved heterogeneity better than most existing studies of discrimination. We find that, even when we control for other …

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The Labor Market Consequences of Gender Differences in Job Search

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008

This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...

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The Long Term Impact of French Settlement on Education in Algeria

Merrouche, Ouarda - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

policy of discrimination explains <p> a large fraction of the disparities in literacy across regions through 1998.However …

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What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process

Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …, should reflect statistical discrimination. …

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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments

Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...

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