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Who Goes on Disability when Times are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up among Immigrants
Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2019
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up tends to increase during recessions despite the fact that the program is intended to insure against the possibility of a work-preventing disability, not job loss. We examine the role that social costs - such as taboos against receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532842
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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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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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Cultural Diversity - A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015
Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532749
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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532873
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Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan
Gang, Ira N.; Schmillen, Achim - 2014
Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - 'Kazakhisation' in Kazakhstan - we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533010
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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry A.; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317930
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Cultural Diversity - A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2015
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129925
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Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan
Gang, Ira; Schmillen, Achim Daniel - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies – “Kazakhisation†in Kazakhstan – we investigate their impact on the comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129931