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equal. In Southern and Western Europe, immigrants from CEE and FSU feature the highest dependent informality rate, whilst in … Eastern Europe this group is second after minorities without immigrant background. In Eastern, Southern and part of Western … Europe, immigrants not covered by EU free mobility provisions are more likely to work without contracts than otherwise …
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are able to assess that the recruitment of low-skill immigrants quite often follows a referral strategy and we identify … of the manager and the relative proportion of immigrants within the firm. Under these perspectives, our study outlines …
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The paper explains how workers' expectations of being discriminated against can be self-confirming, accounting for the persistence of unequal outcomes in the labour market even beyond the causes that originally generated them. The theoretical framework used is a two-stage game of incomplete...
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wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their … discrimination and occupational sorting play a minimal role at best. Wage penalties, on the other hand, are largely explained by … discrimination. Interestingly, while we do find there are some differences in the relative roles of our three alternative …
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Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we...
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We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers produce output that depends both on match-specific productivity and on worker-specific human capital. The human capital is accumulated while working but depreciates while searching for a job. Jobs can be formal or informal and firms...
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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
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We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …
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primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
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-education, but also one of the few to study the moderating roles of gender and education for detailed categories of immigrants … particularly critical among higher-educated immigrants. Gender-based differences in immigrants' penalties, in contrast, are found … immigrants born in developing countries to be over-educated and that citizenship acquisition is also associated with …
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