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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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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...

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The consequences of cumulative discrimination : how special schooling influences employment and wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Brüggemann, Christian - 2013

educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other - or both. A number of studies have found that … discrimination as typically measured, but its main impact is through lowering Roma educational attainment suggesting an additional … and labour market discrimination per se but as a complex outcome of cumulative discrimination. In contrast to previous …

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market …

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Does it pay to care? : prosocial engagement and employment opportunities

Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016

We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities …

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The gender wage gap in developed countries

Kunze, Astrid - 2017

developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …

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Convergence over time or not? : U.S. wages by sexual orientation, 2001-2018

Jepsen, Christopher; Jepsen, Lisa K. - 2020

of anti-discrimination policies and rising overall tolerance by Americans is concerning. …

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Household asset holding diversification in Australia

Mariotti, Francesco; Mumford, Karen; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - 2014

We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … lower extent of, asset holding diversification. …

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Working hours and workers' health : evidence from a national experiment in Sweden

Prodromidis, Nikolaos; Karlsson, Martin; Kühnle, Daniel - 2025

Despite the importance of regulating working hours for workers' health and maintaining labour productivity, the literature lacks credible causal estimates on the impact of reduced working hours. We provide new evidence for the causal effect of shorter workweeks on mortality using full population...

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Labour as a buffer : do temporary workers suffer?

Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff - 2002

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a "buffer stock" model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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