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, number of employees, gender composition, educational level and average age, and whether these workplaces recruit differently … with regard to gender and diagnosis. Swedish workplaces with five employees or more in 2012 were chosen (n = 138 081). The …
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This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1) intensive initial language training, (2)work practice under...
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We study ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working-age Swedish population during 1985–2002. Segregation is measured as overexposure to a particular group, taking into account the distribution of human capital, industry and geography....
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Registers. We analyze eight groups of German immigrants - by country of destination (the US/ Sweden), gender, and skill level …
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We examine the effect of ethnic residential segregation on short- and long-term education and labor market outcomes of immigrants and natives. Our identification strategy builds on the one-sided tipping point model, which predicts that neighborhood native population growth drops discontinuously...
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STEM decreases as gender equality in society increases. Analyzing administrative longitudinal data on students in Hebrew …- and Arabic-language schools in Israel, all operating within the same centralized education system, we find that the gender … achievement-gap favoring girls in Arabic schools, the ethnic group characterized by less gender equality, is greater than the …
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results is that researchers rely on different group measures of inequality. Inequality by gender, household, class, and … cases of East Asia and Latin America. Keywords: Gender ; ethnicity ; inequality ; economic growth …
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This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination occurs may be built on the basis of economic...
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of cultural gender norms on the gender gap in math, and explore whether this effect is mitigated by municipality gender … effect of cultural gender norms from formal institutions, I estimate the effect of mothers' source-country gender norms on … the gender gap in math for second-generation immigrants. By contrasting the outcomes of opposite-sex siblings, I show that …
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The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even...
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