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increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage …
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increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage …
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Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible … hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect …
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This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
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While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … gap: because concentrated industries face little competitive pressure to reduce discrimination, an increase in competition …
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The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...
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-Muslims, an ethnic minority group subjected to substantial labor market discrimination in Sweden, and more specifically ii …
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This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … possible form of labor market discrimination is obese women. Despite making more job applications and engaging more in job …
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of anti-discrimination policies and rising overall tolerance by Americans is concerning. …
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-group opponent. Our findings demonstrate, firstly, that the perception of an out-group accent leads not only to social discrimination …
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