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Differential effects of graduating during a recession across gender and race

Kondo, Ayako - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

This study examines the differential effects of the unemployment rate at labor market entry, defined as the time of leaving school, on subsequent wages across gender and race using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79. Results suggest that the negative effect of a recession at entry on...

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Local labor markets and taste-based discrimination

Berson, Clémence - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-29

This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in...

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Affirmative action and university fit : evidence from Proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-29

Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209, minority graduation rates increased by 4.35...

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Hiring discrimination based on national origin and religious closeness : results from a field experiment in the Paris area

Pierné, Guillaume - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

This study uses the findings of a test carried out by correspondence in order to assess separately the potential hiring effects of North African origin and Muslim or Catholic religious affiliation in the French real estate sector. We constructed six jobseeker profiles, each representing a...

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Headscarf and job recruitment-lifting the veil of labour market discrimination

Leckcivilize, Attakrit; Straub, Alexander - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 11, pp. 1-32

participants in our laboratory experiment to select fictitious candidates for an interview from a pool of CVs with comparable …

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Youth unemployment and personality traits

Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-26

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market choices. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, effort and diligence, and self-esteem on the risk of youths being unemployed (sometimes referred to as NEET...

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Personality and marital surplus

Lundberg, Shelly - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the effect of personality traits on the formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for men and women born before 1960,...

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Affirmative action and university fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-29

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Personality and marital surplus

Lundberg, Shelly - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

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Evaluating search and matching models using experimental data

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon N.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-35

experiment. We then simulate a program group from a randomized experiment within the model. As a measure of the performance of … the model, we compare the outcomes of the program groups from the model and from the randomized experiment. We illustrate … our methodology using the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), a social experiment providing a time-limited earnings …

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