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often interpreted as evidence of systematic ethnic, racial or gender discrimination by lenders. The appearance and … interpretation of such discrimination has long been a controversial issue in public policy and has significant implications for both … discrimination, the design and implementation of regulations preventing the disparate treatment of demographically distinct groups by …
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Movements of labor across the world is an ongoing debate in the literature in terms of its drivers and results in sending and receiving areas. Skill composition of immigrant labor has been discussed by several papers, although they generally focused on visa policies or firm level productivity....
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The decrease in the rule of law and in control of corruption in several EU countries is a threat to the cohesion in the EU. Brexit has reinforced the centrifugal forces in the EU. To counter this threat the EU needs to engage in unpopular measures as they infringe on the Member States'...
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Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic …
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Housing survey, which allows for a detailed identification of the channels through which diversity operates. Differentiating …
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Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some long-standing features of protectionism appear to have endured (such as the distribution of...
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are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents … US. Furthermore, using US data, we find that the discrimination against the unemployed increased over the 1980's in those …
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prohibition for merchants accepting a card from charging different prices depending on the payment method (the no-discrimination … and that for noncardholders decreased. Credit cards services are reduced by merchant price discrimination regardless of …
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intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …’s disutility from certain workers, are identifiable using standard labour market survey data. We demonstrate identification using … data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Estimation of these parameters by matching moments from a sample of …
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discrimination or to individual effort. The absence of any evidence of regional discrimination in the process by which misconduct …
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