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The effects of Vietnam-era military service on the long-term health of veterans : a bounds analysis

Wang, Xintong; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2021

We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using … a restricted version of the National Health Interview Survey 1974-2013 and employing the draft lotteries as an …, satisfy the exclusion restriction by placing bounds on its net or direct effect on the health outcomes of individuals who are …

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Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans

Lonsky, Jakub; Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2021

The role of ethnic immigrant networks in facilitating international trade is a well-established phenomenon in the literature. However, it is less clear whether this relationship extends to illegal trade and unauthorized immigrants. In this paper, we tackle this question by focusing on the case...

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I'm neither racist nor xenophobic, but: dissecting European attitudes towards a ban on Muslims' immigration

Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2018

During his presidential campaign, the new elected President of U.S., Donald Trump, called for a complete ban on Muslims from entering the United States. Although numerous European observers have been shocked by his racist proposal, using the most recent round of the European Social Survey, this...

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Affirmative action and intersectionality at the top : evidence from South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Minasyan, Anna - 2020

Gender-based board quotas do not always lead to higher share of women in top management positions. We study the consequences of an affirmative action policy that stipulates gender- and race-based targets in top management positions, beyond boards. We focus on the representation of intersectional...

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Women's optimism, the gender happiness equaliser : a case of South Africa

Greyling, Talita; Fisher, Bianca - 2020

This paper investigates whether there is co-movement in subjective wellbeing (swb) gender gaps and objective wellbeing (owb) gender gaps over time and whether swb gender gaps are caused by gender differences in endowments or by the different ways men and women value the pre-mentioned. This is...

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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties

Kuroki, Masanori - 2017

This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...

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Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination : evidence from a choice experiment

Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Derous, Eva - 2021

Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour...

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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 workers, we test whether women and men with the same civil...

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Why making promotion after a burnout is like boiling the ocean

Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn; Rooman, Claudia; … - 2021

tolerance, as well as being (6) less capable of taking on an exemplary role, (7) having worse current and (8) future health, (9 …

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COVID-19, race, and gender

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021

occupational seg- regation in the health care and transportation sectors and by commuting on public transport. Living arrangements … and lack of health insurance are instead found un- in uential. The Black female bias is spatially concentrated in …

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