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A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … perspective, it is important to know whether this gap is due to differences in the characteristics of White and Ethnic Minority … groups (which reduce the employability of Ethnic Minority groups relative to Whites) or whether it results from some form 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 … (a more established migrant group) suffering less discrimination than Chinese and Middle Easterners (who have typically … ethnic groups rather than focusing on a single minority as in most other studies. In all cases, we applied for entry …
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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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This study examines the determinants of the employment status of Indigenous Australians using data from the 1994 …
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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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discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …
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efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also …
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side demands votes and each demand enough votes to alone control a majority. The probability of a minority victory is … independent of the size of the minority and converges to one half, for any minority size, when the electorate is arbitrarily large …
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We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … minority and White prisoners become marginal from the perspective of their probability of parole violation. Parole boards … system. Further evidence rules out post-release discrimination. We propose different hypotheses to account for the evidence. …
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