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We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other … sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present …
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We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in … the other sector and the effect on labour market performance therefore depends on whether discrimination is present in …
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market discrimination. We estimate the welfare effects of negative attitudes, through their wage and local amenities, for …
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Atkinson et al. (2018) propose a measure of the glass ceiling exploiting that top incomes are approximately Pareto distributed. We clarify how this glass-ceiling coefficient describes the increasing scarcity of women further up in the income distribution and show how it relates to the top-income...
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This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are employed. The communist regimes had highly regulated...
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In the light of Trinidad and Tobago’s colonial history, its labour market is characterized by two about equal sized majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay...
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This study sheds light on the growing trend and gender dynamics of workplace flexibility in Latin America, underscoring the importance of remote work options in the region's labor market. We explore gender differences in willingness to pay (WTP) for remote work arrangements in Latin America,...
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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to their control counterparts, suggesting overconfidence bias as a potential mechanism behind taste-based discrimination. …
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How does exposure to soap operas with LGBTIQ+ characters affect attitudes toward the LGBTIQ+ community? To answer this question, we construct a novel database of 175 telenovelas (soap operas) with LGBTIQ+ characters airing in 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2002 and 2019....
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