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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011
Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450031
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The gender pay gap in ireland from austerity through recovery
Doorley, Karina; Privalko, Ivan; Russell, Helen; Tuda, Dora - 2021
This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity measures and recovery from the Great Recession. Using survey data sources linked to administrative information on earnings, we show that the raw gender wage gap across the wage...
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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
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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Wie zufrieden sind Migranten mit ihrem Leben?
Tucci, Ingrid; Eisnecker, Philipp; Brücker, Herbert - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 81 (2014) 43, pp. 1152-1158
Sample allows us to study this social integration by migrants in greater detail. Barriers to integration and discrimination …
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Are Ethnic Minorities More Likely to Emigrate? Evidence from Latvia
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2008
Drawing on survey data on emigration intentions in Latvia, this paper studies emigration intentions of minorities. The paper shows, that after controlling for other factors, the probability of emigration of a Russian minority individual is higher than that of a majority individual. For Russian...
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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...
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Who Gets a Swiss Passport? A Natural Experiment in Immigrant Discrimination
Hainmueller, Jens; Hangartner, Dominik - 2014
We study discrimination against immigrants using micro-level data from Switzerland, where, until recently, some … and western European countries. Statistical and taste-based discrimination contribute to varying naturalization success …; the rewards for economic credentials are higher for applicants from disadvantaged origins, and origin-based discrimination …
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