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discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … control for pre-inflow background and labour market characteristics. There is also a good degree of consistency across …
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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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-level jobs and submitted a CV showing that the candidate had attended high school in Australia. We find economically and … jobs in order to receive the same number of interviews. These differences vary systematically across groups, with Italians …
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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 …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …
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In this paper we examine the long term effects of socialization and segregation in schools, on labour market outcomes … school graduates. We incorporate this into a dynamic model of parental school choice (state versus private) and labour market … in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …
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We present a new type of field experiment to investigate ethnic prejudice in the workplace. Our design allows us to study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is common but remarkably responsive to the "price of...
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