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Discrimination and the effects of drug testing on black employment
Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2012
drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … the absence of testing. -- employer drug testing ; discrimination ; black employment ; labor market outcome disparities … testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use …
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Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities? : evidence from a field experiment
Agüero, Jorge M.; Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - 2020
In labor markets where disadvantaged students are discriminated against, meritbased college scholarships targeting these students could convey two opposing signals to employers. There is a positive signal reflecting the candidate's cognitive ability (talented in high-school and able to maintain...
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Breaking gender barriers: experimental evidence on men in pink-collar jobs
Delfino, Alexia - 2021
Traditionally female-dominated sectors are growing and male-dominated ones shrinking, yet sectorial male shares are not changing. Why? I embed a field experiment within the UK national recruitment program for social workers to analyse barriers to men's entry and the nature of men's sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431128
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Are you unhappy having minority co-workers?
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2013
This paper attempts to establish empirically whether natives' job satisfaction is adversely affected by having minority co-worker(s). The paper uses nationally representative linked employer-employee data and eight different facets of job satisfaction. Measuring minority co-worker status at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753802
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Awareness reduces racial bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
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L' union fait la force? : evidence for wage discrimination in firms with high diversity
Grinza, Elena; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2018
discriminate against them. The wage discrimination in high-diversity firms could be alleviated through a stronger presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859491
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958
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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013
attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage … most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination … above – and employment rates and wages far below – those of majority populations. One issue which has received relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196417
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The CPS citizenship question and survey refusals : causal and semi-causal evidence featuring a two-stage regression discontinuity design
Bernhardt, Robert; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020
The unsuccessful attempt to add a citizenship question to the Census has drawn attention to citizenship questions on other surveys. Simultaneously, researchers have noted a recent increase in Current Population Survey non-response. We combine these topics, studying the effect of the CPS...
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