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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 …

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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...

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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

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Slipping through the Cracks of a Welfare State: Children of Immigrants in Finland

Ansala, Laura; Hämäläinen, Ulla; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2016

We document large differences in educational attainment, criminal sentences and use of psychotropic medication between the children of immigrants and natives living in Finland. Among the offspring of immigrants from the OECD countries and the former Soviet Union, the disadvantage in education...

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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative...

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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...

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Age at migration and social integration

Aslund, Olof; Bohlmark, Anders; Skans, Oskar Nordstrom - 2009

The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...

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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021

We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18...

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How the macroeconomic context impacts on attitudes to immigration: evidence from parallel time series

Ruist, Joakim - 2014

This study investigates the effects of the macroeconomic context on attitudes to immigration. Earlier studies do in most cases not provide significant empirical support for the existence of important such effects. In this article it is argued that this lack of consistent evidence is mainly due...

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How diverse can spatial measures of cultural diversity be? Results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model

Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2014

Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups - such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes - are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...

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