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How many correspondence tests are enough to detect discrimination among single agents? A longitudinal study on the Belgian real estate market

Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul; Van der Bracht, Koen - 2020

Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …

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Gendered Effects of Employment Protection on Earnings Mobility

Bárcena-Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020

This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...

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School-age bullying, workplace bullying and job satisfaction: Experiences of LGB people in Britain

Drydakis, Nick - 2018

Using a data set that contains information on retrospective school-age bullying, as well as on workplace bullying in the respondents’ present job, the outcomes of this study suggest that bullying, when it is experienced by sexual orientation minorities tends to persist over time. According to...

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A Signal of (Train)ability? Grade Repetition and Hiring Chances

Baert, Stijn; Picchio, Matteo - 2020

This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both outcomes. More concretely, various treatments of grade retention are randomly assigned to fictitious...

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Is Covid-19 "The Great Leveler"? The Critical Role of Social Identity in Lockdown-induced Job Losses

Deshpande, Ashwini; Ramachandran, Rajesh - 2020

Using nationally representative panel data for 21,799 individuals between May 2018 and April 2020, this paper investigates whether the Covid-19 pandemic was indeed a "Great Leveler" in the sense that it imposed similar and equivalent labour market shocks on different caste groups. We find that...

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Social Rejection, Family Acceptance, Economic Recession and Physical and Mental Health of Sexual Minorities

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

Utilizing two panel datasets covering the periods 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the study examines whether social rejection, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association...

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Forced Labor and Health-Related Outcomes. The Case of Beggar Children

Drydakis, Nick - 2023

The study aims to examine whether beggar children are victims of forced labor, as well as to identify the manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health-related quality of life and mental health. The study focused on the...

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Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan during and after the Global Financial Crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John; … - 2017

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...

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Performance Pay and Applicant Screening

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2017

Using German establishment data, we show that the relationship between intensity of performance pay and intensity of applicant screening depends on the nature of production. In establishments with increased multitasking, performance pay is positively associated with applicant screening. By...

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Duration Dependence as an Unemployment Stigma: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany

Nüß, Patrick - 2017

Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies duration dependence in Germany, with a particular emphasis on company and vacancy characteristics as potential determinants. The experiment reveals that duration dependence...

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