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Residential-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market

Mikula, Stepan; Reggiani, Tommaso G. - 2022

Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1,347 job applications for low-qualified front-desk jobs in Brno, Czech Republic....

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Housing Conditions and Health in Urban China

Ding, Lanlin; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7...

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The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy

Gradstein, Mark; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Minorities, such as ethnic and immigration groups, have often been subject to exclusion through labor market discrimination, residential and employment segregation policies, business ownership regulations, restrictions on political participation, access to public services and more. This paper...

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Caste based discrimination: evidence and policy

Siddique, Zahra - 2008

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...

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The redistributive effects of political reservation for minorities: evidence from India

Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2009

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative...

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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities: the role of employment quota

Prakash, Nishith - 2009

The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority...

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Low-Skilled Jobs and Student Jobs: Employers' Preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; ilinčíková, Zuzana - 2015

job offers posted online in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The results show that the student labour market is quite …

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What is the Value of Foreign Work Experience? Analysing Online CV Data in Slovakia

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2016

This paper studies how attractive young returnees are in the labour market and how they behave relative to stayers. We use the online CVs of young people that are posted on the major Slovak job-search portal. The analysis is performed using a set of regression models that investigate...

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Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Vecci, Joseph; … - 2020

In an unique lab-in-the-field experiment we design a novel labor market environment, the Game of Prejudice, to elicit preferences for discrimination towards the largest minority group in Europe (the Roma) at the intensive margins as well as at the extensive margins. Our unique experiment design...

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Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia

Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mytna - 2014

This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU … labor market conditions in receiving countries and Slovakia. We show that besides the standard demographic factors …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …

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