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Subjective well-being, income, and ethnicity inSlovakia
Želinský, Tomáš - 2021
is examined in the setting of Slovak Roma, who are poor in comparison to the non-Roma population. The results suggest … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …
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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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Who goes on disability when times are tough? : the role of work norms among immigrants
Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2020
We examine how work norms affect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up rates in response to worsening economic conditions. By focusing on immigrants in the US, we can consider the influence of work norms in a person's home country, which we argue are exogenous to labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239649
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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 Dictionary.com,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152185
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805676
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Who is covered and who underreports : an empirical analysis of access to social insurance on the Egyptian labor market
Roushdy, Rania; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
This paper investigates the dynamics and determinants of having access to social insurance coverage on the Egyptian labor market among wage and non-wage workers. The paper explores two issues: the worker- and enterprise- level determinants of having access to social insurance and the risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110554
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Cash transfers and labor supply : new evidence on impacts and mechanisms
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tarp, Finn - 2023
We study the impact of a national cash transfer program in Vietnam on labor supply using large household surveys and a regression-discontinuity design based on discontinuity in age eligibility. We do not find evidence of a disincentive effect of the cash transfer on labor supply for adults aged...
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Sexual orientation and earnings : a meta-analysis 2012-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
in the face of anti-discrimination policies represents a cause for concern and indicates the need for comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548047
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The state of hiring discrimination : a meta-analysis of (almost) all recent correspondence experiments
Lippens, Louis; Vermeiren, Siel; Baert, Stijn - 2021
what extent minority groups face hiring discrimination. Past meta-studies have charted parts of the discrimination … of correspondence experiments on hiring discrimination published between 2005 and 2020. Using a random-effects model, we … computed pooled discrimination ratios concerning a total of ten discrimination grounds upon which unequal treatment in hiring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659622
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661529