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An Arab, an Asian, and a Black guy walk into a job interview : ethnic stigma in hiring after controlling for social class

Borm, Hannah Van; Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn - 2022

Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy : another look at the economics of marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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The quest for more and more education : implications for social mobility

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2012

In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and show that this rise has featured faster increases in education acquisition by people from...

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Earnings inequality in India : has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); … - 2006

Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have the potential to stall the process of economic...

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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...

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Health inequality over the life-cycle

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2009

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is determined by three factors: endowments, and permanent and transitory shocks. We employ Simulated Minimum Distance and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the model....

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Eliciting individual preferences for pension reform

Fourati, Yosr Abid; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper's contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a choice experiment to investigate individual preferences for an...

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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger : early life conditions and adult health in Ireland

Delaney, Liam; McGovern, Mark E.; Smith, James P. - 2009

We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...

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The earnings of immigrants in Ireland : results from the 2005 EU survey of income and living conditions

Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2007

Ireland is provided. Second, the analysis undertaken by Barrett and McCarthy (forthcoming) of earnings of immigrants in … Ireland is updated. Third, the earnings of immigrant women are assessed to see if they experience a "double disadvantage … less than comparable natives employees in 2005. For immigrants from non-English speaking countries, the wage disadvantage …

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