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Housing survey, which allows for a detailed identification of the channels through which diversity operates. Differentiating …
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Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some long-standing features of protectionism appear to have endured (such as the distribution of...
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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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are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents … US. Furthermore, using US data, we find that the discrimination against the unemployed increased over the 1980's in those …
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prohibition for merchants accepting a card from charging different prices depending on the payment method (the no-discrimination … and that for noncardholders decreased. Credit cards services are reduced by merchant price discrimination regardless of …
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intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …’s disutility from certain workers, are identifiable using standard labour market survey data. We demonstrate identification using … data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Estimation of these parameters by matching moments from a sample of …
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discrimination or to individual effort. The absence of any evidence of regional discrimination in the process by which misconduct …
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