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religious and racial intolerance and discrimination relative to other immigrants. Further, I do not find evidence that after 9 …I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim … Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to …
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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …
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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race. In order to...
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do immigrants fare with respect to wages, employment, and occupational choices; are immigrants in competition with the … natives, and do they harm or improve the labour market situation of natives; does the presence of immigrants alter the …? The studies reviewed showed that while some immigrant groups are faring well, assimilation and intergenerational mobility …
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, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level … discrimination helps determine the present pattern of job sorting, current discrimination cannot explain the relationship between … wages and racial density. Current discrimination reflected in racial wage gaps occurs within occupations or across …
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immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …
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statistical discrimination. The results suggest the existence of no significant differences in hiring rates for different gender …
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Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important … cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor …. Together these results point to the subtle but systematic forms of discrimination that continue to shape employment …
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