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Labor Market Discrimination and Sorting : Evidence from South Africa
Abel, Martin - 2017
This paper collects a unique data set of classified ads and exploits quasi-random variation in the applicant pool composition to test for hiring discrimination against immigrants in South Africa's informal sector. Consistent with a tournament models in which immigrants are penalized, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245735
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Perceptions of Precariousness : A Qualitative Study of Constraints Underlying Gender Disparities in Mongolia's Labor Market
Schmillen, Achim - 2018
As compared to the majority of countries in the East Asia and Pacific Region, gender disparities in Mongolia are relatively muted. At the same time, a number of important gender disparities do exist. In particular, several studies have documented gender disparities in access to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645115
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A structural model of the labor market to understand gender gaps among marginalized Roma communities
Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Robayo-Abril, Monica - 2020
This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296858
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The impact of employer discrimination on female labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Tunisia
Alaref, Jumana; Towfighian, Samira Nikaein; Paez, Gustavo N. - 2020
The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender-based discrimination by employers at the point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297473
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All in My Head? : The Play of Exclusion and Discrimination in the Labor Market
Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2015
Labor market discrimination is very difficult to pinpoint, even more difficult to measure and almost impossible to "prove". It has been studied in many disciplines of which economics and sociology are prime. The latter has focused more on the manner in which discrimination plays out and how it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245616
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The effect of immigrant concentration at school on natives’ achievement : does length of stay in the host country matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2018
Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902824
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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434618
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Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297861
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Labor Market Regulations and Outcomes in Sweden : A Comparative Analysis of Recent Trends
Ulku, Hulya - 2015
This paper analyzes recent trends in Sweden's labor market regulations in relation to comparator economies and examines … more rapidly to the recent global financial crisis than the majority of the European Union economies, which helped Sweden … to recover quickly. Sweden's hiring regulations are more flexible than those of many comparator economies, however, fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246300
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Discriminatory laws against women : a survey of the literature
Roy, Sanchari - 2019
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004791