two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … into the wage differential decompositions, two statistical methodologies are merged: the Oaxaca methodology and the Heckman …

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …

Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China …

We develop a methodology to study how the subprime crisis spills over to the real economy. Does it manifest itself … methodology to estimate these two channels of spillovers. We first propose an index of a firm's sensitivity to consumer demand …

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …