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Does racism affect a migrant's choice of destination?
Henry, Ruby - 2009
I explicitly introduce racial conflict and cultural attitudes on racial diversity as determinants of destination choice to test their continued relevance to African Americans. I construct several measures of racial intolerance towards African Americans using hate crime activity and the feelings...
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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282604
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...
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Can we test for bias in scientific peer-review?
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008
fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268887
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The prostitute's allure: Examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination
Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010
commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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Costless discrimination and unequal achievements in a labour market experiment
Filippin, Antonio; Guala, Francesco - 2011
We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …
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Diversity and public goods: A natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation
Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David - 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...
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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
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Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination … attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …
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