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The wage penalty of regional accents
Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas; Winter, Joachim - 2019
Previous work has documented that speaking one's native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of...
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Murphy's Law or luck of the Irish? : disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246616
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Race discrimination in Brazil : an analysis of the age, period and cohort effects
Reis, Maurício Cortez; Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna - 2015
argue in this paper that the reduction in economic discrimination for younger cohorts could have played an important role on …: the first one is the characteristic effect and the second is the discrimination term. This decomposition is made for 90 … cells defined by cohort and year. After that, the amount of earnings differential due to discrimination term is decomposed …
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Decomposing discrimination: why a holistic approach to racism hides more than it reveals
Koopmans, Ruud - 2021
that such a concept of racism is not very helpful in understanding actual patterns of discrimination. Phenotype, ethnicity … and religion each have independent effects on discrimination. Tendencies towards discrimination differ greatly between …
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Discrimination against the obese and very thin students in Brazilian schools
Kubota, Luis Claudio - 2015
discrimination against obese and very thin students using PeNSE microdata. Data indicate that students that classify themselves as …
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Gender discriminatory taxes, fairness perception, and labor supply
Hundsdoerfer, Jochen; Matthaei, Eva Kristina - 2020
inequality in outcome as well as discrimination, we find strong differences in reactions between male and female participants … of gender-based discrimination on labor supply. …
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Do female-owned employment agencies mitigate discrimination and expand opportunity for women?
Hunt, Jennifer; Moehling, Carolyn M. - 2024
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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Extending alcohol retailers' opening hours : evidence from Sweden
Avdic, Daniel; Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie von - 2021
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Illegal immigrants, crime, and sanctuary cities
Miyagiwa, Kazuyuki; Wan, Yunyun - 2020 - Revised August 2020
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