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traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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We conduct a correspondence study to assess demand for soft skills in the context of hiring discrimination in Malaysia …. We find no evidence of gender-based discrimination, including in STEM occupations. However, in line with previous studies … in the same context, we find evidence of ethnic discrimination. We then test the relevance of two soft skills: leadership …
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-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …
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Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively … mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to …-based and statistical discrimination against the empirical reality. First, we observed that the measurement operationalisation …
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Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1,347 job applications for low-qualified front-desk jobs in Brno, Czech Republic....
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toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …
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by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
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This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
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to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source … countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the … educational attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education …
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