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The racial saving gap enigma: unraveling the role of institutions

Belton, Willie; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2008

It has been well documented in the literature that ethnicity matters significantly in the determination of savings. In … particular, African-American savings lag far behind savings for other ethnic groups. Similarly, the literature also provides … explanation for the savings gap that still exists between African-Americans and White Americans even after accounting for …

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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2000

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …

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International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US

Rendón, Sílvio; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - 2007

international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job …

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Between meritocracy and ethnic discrimination: the gender difference

Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - 2008

Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...

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The impact of being monitored on discriminatory behavior among employers: evidence from a natural experiment

Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2009

Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the right to conduct discrimination tests and to even...

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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring

Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...

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Ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market: a field experiment

Kaas, Leo; Manger, Christian - 2010

This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of...

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Racial harassment, ethnic concentration and economic conditions

Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca; Preston, Ian - 2010

In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the...

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Ethnic competition and specialization

Kahanec, Martin - 2007

Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...

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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000

-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …

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