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prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to …This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the … facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status …
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email … requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find that patients' ethnicity, as signaled by distinct Turkish versus …
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This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This … suggests that market competition can eliminate the discrimination of wholesale buyers. …
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We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy. …
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attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered … most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination …
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discrimination as typically measured, but its main impact is through lowering Roma educational attainment suggesting an additional …Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of … educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other - or both. A number of studies have found that …
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We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic … homogeneous and mixed neighbor- hoods. Our results show that Roma in less segregated areas tend to have significantly fewer … children (around 0.9). Most of the difference arises from Roma in less segregated areas waiting substantially more after having …
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and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we … survey data collected in Roma communities in four Central and Eastern European countries lends support to the explanation …. The analysis reveals a strong negative correlation between the influence of the Roma community on an individual member …
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A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known …, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together … discrimination. …
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