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Uncovering the Roots of Obesity- Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics
Dolado, Juan; Minale, Luigi; Guerra, Airam - 2023
This paper investigates the roots of potential labour-market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between … Youth (NLSY97), we test whether residual wage gaps could be attributed to prejudice (taste-based discrimination) and …/or statistical discrimination. To this end, we examine how these two types of discrimination hinge on a wide range of obese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532858
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The heterogeneity of ethnic employment gaps
Aeberhardt, Romain; Coudin, Elise; Rathelot, Roland - 2016
underlying mechanisms and is not evidence for, say, heterogeneous discrimination. Finally, we discuss our main empirical findings … in the light of simple taste-based vs. statistical discrimination models. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532742
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Ethnic differentials on the labor market in the presence of asymmetric spatial sorting: Set identification and estimation
Rathelot, Roland - 2014
ethnicities because of labor-or housing-market discrimination. This paper shows that controlling for neighborhoods and observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533141
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Ethnic differentials on the labor market in the presence of asymmetric spatial sorting: Set identification and estimation
Rathelot, Roland - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
ethnicities because of labor-or housing-market discrimination. This paper shows that controlling for neighborhoods and observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895133
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Temporary Foreign Workers and Firms: Theory and Canadian Evidence
Brochu, Pierre; Gross, Till; Worswick, Christopher - 2016
The goal of our paper is to better understand the economic implications of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) programs as well as comprehend the underlying reasons for the rapid expansion of the number of TFWs hired by employers under the Canadian program brought to light in 2014. We present an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532921
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Even Education and Experience has its Limits: Closing the Wage Gap
Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - 2015
Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532982
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Even Education and Experience has its Limits: Closing the Wage Gap
Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2015
Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118273
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Life Satisfaction, Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods: Is There an Effect of Neighbourhood Ethnic Composition on Life Satisfaction?
Platt, Lucinda; Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita - 2014
Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532741
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Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as well as the Native-born?
Islam, Asadul; Stillman, Steven; Worswick, Christopher - 2016
The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfare depends on the extent to which household members can take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532852
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Life Satisfaction, Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods: Is There an Effect of Neighbourhood Ethnic Composition on Life Satisfaction?
Knies, Gundi; Platt, Lucinda; Nandi, Alita - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895130