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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses
Pudney, Stephen E.; Shields, Michael - 1999
For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
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Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? : an extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the 'assimilation literature' and the 'discrimination literature'. We estimate...
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Overeducation and ethnic minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder - 2002
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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups? : The case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
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Wage arrears and the distribution of earnings in Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2001
The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the...
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Establishment age and wages : evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Kölling, Arnd - 2002
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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
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Language proficiency and labour market performance of immigrants in the UK
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2000
This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...
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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.
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