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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021
. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further … that ethnic identity strongly is associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422534
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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background
Drydakis, Nick - 2017
Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119310
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A field study of age discrimination in the workplace : the importance of gender and race : pay the gap
Drydakis, Nick; Paraskevopoulou, Anna; Bozani, Vasiliki - 2022
The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and affects access to vacancies outcomes and wage sorting. In order to answer the research question the study collects data from four simultaneous field experiments in England. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013392152
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The role of the workplace in ethnic wage differentials
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Bryson, Alex - 2021
Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610752
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Earnings discrimination in the workplace
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
wedge between the wages of men and women. However, the paper also reviews evidence on earnings discrimination by race or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257521
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Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence
Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020
Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed...
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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers
Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017
partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111805
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012521470
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815700
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Informal employment and wages in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2021
Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494414