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This field experiment explores whether single and married female job candidates' un/employment histories differentially affect their chances of obtaining interviews through China's Internet job boards. It also considers whether firms' discrimination against, and/or preference for, candidates who...
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This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the principal component …
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the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … wage. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct an imputed … their occupation to one associated with higher skills and better pay, when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor …
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Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that … immigrants. Perceived importance of income comparison with Dutch natives is positively correlated to life satisfaction … Turkish immigrants. Perceived importance of income comparison with relatives in the Netherlands is positively correlated to …
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There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
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Probit analysis to a sample of over 37,900 employed males. We focus on the occupational attainment of immigrants and the …
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influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
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This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are substantial across subjects, grades and years. Our results show that there exist test score...
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We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how … rates for immigrants. Although entrants have on average better education than people staying in the territory for the entire … for stayers. Leavers have a positive effect on the evolution of homeownership rates for immigrants because they have a low …
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immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …
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