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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 …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
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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 …
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properly tested. In this survey, we present relevant facts, review the theoretical models of spatial mismatch, confront their …
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The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...
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, 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 …
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Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities — and particularly blacks — have remained in city centres. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential...
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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 …
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In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of … unemployment spells as a result of increased immigration. Increased trade with Central and East European Countries (CEECs) seems to …
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