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Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes
Jones, Daniel; Shi, Ying - 2022
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 removed barriers to voting for Black Americans in the South; existing work documents that this in turn led to shifts in the distribution of public funding towards areas with a higher share of Black residents and also reduced Black-White earnings disparities....
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Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; ter Weel, Bas; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2021
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 …
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market : The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - 2021
of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on the transitional labor market in the Netherlands, in …
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The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2011
Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124487
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … employment and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
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Tax Incentives for High Skilled Migrants : Evidence from a Preferential Tax Scheme in the Netherlands
Timm, Lisa; Giuliodori, Massimo; Muller, Paul - 2022
immigrants. We study a preferential tax scheme for foreigners in the Netherlands, which introduced an income threshold for …
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Racial Discrimination and Household Chores
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
We make the novel argument that time spent on household chores can possibly reflect racial discrimination based on color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of marriage, recognizes that both intra-household bargaining and hedonic marriage markets operating...
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
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New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
Ñopo, Hugo - 2010
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh - 2011
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
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