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behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer … data we find that a randomly selected employer is more likely to discriminate against a minority job applicant in regions …
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This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … segregation. However, levels of discrimination differ considerably among occupations, varying from no evidence of disability …
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It is well-known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the US. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories among arrival cohorts. Recent studies have shown that later arrival cohorts of immigrants have lower...
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Despite their lower socioeconomic status, Hispanic immigrants in the United States initially have better health outcomes than natives. Paradoxically while second-generation immigrants assimilate socio-economically, their health deteriorates. I show that a model of selection and intergenerational...
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Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects …This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England …. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time … results suggest that immigration reduces residents' likelihood to report negative health outcomes by improving their working …
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stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have … documented a significant relationship between immigration policy and the physical and mental health of immigrants, we know little … about the effects that immigration policy may have on immigrants' sleep patterns. Exploiting the approval of the Deferred …
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. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation …This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …
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wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine … what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The …
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Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We … investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize … measures produce qualitatively similar results, and, opposite to the observational studies, suggests that ethnic discrimination …
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