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Diversity and Public Goods : A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
Algan, Yann - 2011
This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119010
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The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK
Algan, Yann - 2009
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155002
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Children, Kitchen, Church : Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775697
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835875
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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A. - 2008
measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768173
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Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?
Baert, Stijn - 2015
-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033166
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Selecting Names for Experiments on Ethnic Discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Van Borm, Hannah - 2022
In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077581
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Customer Discrimination and Ethnic Team Composition
Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik; Wolters, Leonie - 2023
This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study uses a difference-in-differences approach to show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346255
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Roma and Bureaucrats : A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination
Mikula, Štepán; Montag, Josef - 2023
facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status … prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to … have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347904
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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325070