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Beyond the Stigma of War: Russian Migrants in Kazakhstan's Labour Market
Abdulla, Kanat; Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2024
In this study, we investigate the employers' attitude towards Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labor market. We conduct a field experiment by sending over 1600 fictitious job applications to real job openings posted on one of the largest job search portals in the country. The job applicants...
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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents
Mann, Samuel - 2020
This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
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The UK Gender Pay Gap: Does Firm Size Matter?
Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi - 2022
Motivated by the introduction of the UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting legislation to large firms, defined as over 250 employees, we use linked employee-employer panel data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings to explore pre-legislation variation in the gender pay gap by firm size. In doing...
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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the “feminization” of elementary school teaching is causing debates about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel data on the universe of students, teachers and schools for a German state, I exploit within...
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Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on the job. By comparing trainee performance … for newly hired workers conditional on competitive civil service examination scores for hiring French public sector …
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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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Diving in the minds of recruiters: What triggers gender stereotypes in hiring?
Van Borm, Hannah; Baert, Stijn - 2022
We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters … perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these … gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender …
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What Does a Job Candidate’s Age Signal to Employers?
Van Borm, Hannah; Burn, Ian; Baert, Stijn - 2019
Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However …
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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”
Payson, Steven - 2019
The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...
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