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 …

-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of … wage level. This pattern is reversed for employment effects where the magnitudes are smaller. We combine this database with …. We do not detect a significant and robust association for the employment effects of foreign workers. …

born children exhibit lower employment probabilities than their white native born peers. However, significant differences … were attributed white native characteristics, their wages would be considerably lower. The substantial employment gap …

born children exhibit lower employment probabilities than their white native born peers. However, significant differences … were attributed white native characteristics, their wages would be considerably lower. The substantial employment gap …

This paper investigates the heterogeneity of ethnic employment gaps using a new single-index based approach. Instead of … stratifying our sample by age or education, we study ethnic employment gaps along a continuous measure of employability, the … employment probability minority workers would have if their characteristics were priced as in the majority group. We apply this …

-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish …