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Do Swedish Schools Discriminate against Children with Disabilities?

Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020

We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities … children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …. One potential effect of our results is that children with disabilities are referred to less attractive schools than …

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Type 1 Diabetes and youth sports in Sweden: A field experiment on discrimination

Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2023

This study evaluated discrimination against children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in Swedish sports clubs through a field experiment. Two fictitious fathers sent emails to 193 top-division clubs in football, floorball, ice hockey, and handball, one disclosing his son's T1DM condition....

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Immigrant self-employment in turbulent times: A decade with refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Hammarstedt, Mats; Skedinger, Per - 2024

We examine immigrant self-employment in Sweden during 2011-2021 - a turbulent decade with a large influx of refugees into the country and the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Four outcome variables are investigated: the probability of self-employment, the probability of entry into and...

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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...

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Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2020

In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive response from employers. For male applicants, this holds...

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Employer Attitudes towards Refugee Immigrants

Lundborg, Per; Skedinger, Per - 2014

We present a large survey with responses from Swedish firms on their attitudes towards refugees, regarding hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination. Generally, firms report positive experiences of having refugees as employees, but we also document a great deal of heterogeneity in...

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Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Labor Market Gaps between Immigrants and Natives in the OECD

Bergh, Andreas - 2014

In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine potential explanations of these gaps. Results are obtained for 21-28 countries using bivariate correlations, OLS-regressions and Bayesian model averaging over all 512...

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Gender, Wages, and Social Security in Chinas Industrial Sector

Rickne, Johanna - 2010

This study compares average earnings and productivities for men and women employed in roughly 200,000 Chinese industrial enterprises. Women's average wages lag behind men's wages by 11%, and this result is robust to the inclusion of non-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The...

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Height and Leadership

Lindqvist, Erik - 2010

This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...

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Reversion to the Racial Mean and Mortgate Discrimination

Sanandaji, Tino - 2009

Studies of mortgage approvals find that minority borrowers are more likely to be denied loans, even when background variables such as current-year income are held constant. This article demonstrates that relying on current year income when comparing racial outcomes leads to an overestimation of...

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