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Wage formation between newly hired workers and employers : survey evidence
Hall, Robert Ernest (contributor);  … - 2008
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...
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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets
Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013
The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data … we investigate the impact of spatial mismatch on the unemployment rate of ethnic groups using the matching model proposed …
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"Can't get enough" : prejudice, contact jobs and the racial wage gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252637
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Racial diversity, electoral preferences, and the supply of policy: the Great Migration and civil rights
Calderon, Alvaro; Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
Between 1940 and 1970 more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517508
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Racial diversity and racial policy preferences: the Great Migration and civil rights
Calderon, Alvaro; Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582281
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Public opinion, racial bias, and labor market outcomes
Majlesi, Kaveh; Prina, Silvia; Sullivan, Paul - 2022
The effect of negative shifts in public opinion on the economic lives of minorities is unknown. We study the role of racial bias in the U.S. labor market by investigating sudden changes in public opinion about Asians following the anti-Chinese rhetoric that emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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From citizen's rights to civic responsibilities
Ronconi, Lucas - 2019
In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...
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Customer discrimination and employment outcomes : theory and evidence from the French labor market
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350347
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Race, ethnicity and the dynamics of health insurance coverage
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2008
Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
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The role of information and institutions in understanding the black-white gap in self-employment
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth (contributor);  … - 2008
It has been well documented in the literature that ethnicity matters significantly in the determination of self-employment rates. In particular, African-American self-employment rates lag far behind rates for other racial groups. Similarly, the literature also provides evidence of the long lived...
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