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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures - Quasi-experimental Evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts - the number of individuals of the same ethnicity - and the quality of contacts - welfare use among members of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321531
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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures: Quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317900
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Do anonymous job application procedures level the playing field?
Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2007
Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea gets support from theory and experimental evidence, but virtually nothing is known about its real-life effects. We present empirical evidence building on micro data collected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317958
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Mental health policy in India: Seven sets of questions and some answers
Mirza, Arshad; Singh, Nirvikar - 2017
This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide … momentum in changing the relatively poor state of mental health care in India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013807
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Labour regulations in India: Rationalising the laws governing wages
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017
In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer … regulations in India do not measure up to the standards adopted in peer countries and in some respect fall short of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807885
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Seeking similarity: How immigrants and natives manage at the labor market
Åslund, Olof; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding holds when comparing establishments in the same 5-digit industry and location, when comparing different establishments within the same firm, when analyzing establishments that...
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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process
Ahmed, Ali; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2011
This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321159
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396722
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Social Hierarchies and Public Distribution of Food in Rural India
Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2014
In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457039
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Leakages from Public Distribution System (PDS) and the way forward
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …
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