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The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
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This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012 …". -- Survey data ; poverty ; labor force participation ; Central Asia …
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activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their … multitasking than whites, with Pakistani and Bangladeshi males spending the least time. The gap is present for both ethnic minority …
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as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps between ethnic minority and majority populations in terms of labor market … minority ; migration ; unemployment ; labor force participation ; labor market …
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perspective, it is important to know whether this gap is due to differences in the characteristics of White and Ethnic Minority … groups (which reduce the employability of Ethnic Minority groups relative to Whites) or whether it results from some form of … sensitive to the methodology used. This calls into question previous results based on simple regression techniques, which are …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … ethnic groups rather than focusing on a single minority as in most other studies. In all cases, we applied for entry … statistically significant differences in callback rates, suggesting that ethnic minority candidates would need to apply for more …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
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key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …
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