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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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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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Search, Bargaining and Employer Discrimination

Rosen, A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

This paper analyses Becker's (1971) theory of employer discrimination within a search and wage-bargaining setting … that the highest profits are realized by firms with a positive discrimination coefficient. Moreover, once ownership and … control are separated, both highest profits and highest utility may be realized by firms with a positive discrimination …

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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 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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Bargaining and Strategic Discrimination

Björnerstedt, Jonas; Westermark, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...

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Search, Bargaining and Employer Discrimination

Rosén, Åsa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

This paper analyses Becker´s (1971) theory of employer discrimination within a search and wage-bargaining setting … that the highest profits are realized by firms with a positive discrimination coefficient. Moreover, once ownership and … control are separated, both highest profits and highest utility may be realized by firms with a positive discrimination …

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Does Unemployment Hysteresis Equal Employment Hysteresis?

Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

This paper investigates if conclusions regarding labour market hysteresis differ depending on whether employment or unemployment rates are studied. Applying a range of unit-root tests to monthly data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., we find results for...

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Evidence from a Natural Experiment.

Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...

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The Swedish Model: Labour Market Institutions and Contracts.

Nilsson, C. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1992

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