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religious and racial intolerance and discrimination relative to other immigrants. Further, I do not find evidence that after 9 …I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim … Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to …
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worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into selfemployment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally … pushed into selfemployment when they feel discriminated. Married immigrants are more likely to go into selfemployment, but … less likely when they have young children. Immigrants living with foreign passports in ethnic households are more likely …
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Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in …-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman …
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-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic. Intergenerational improvement is an important source of wage convergence of black immigrants …. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially … Caribbean-English and African-English immigrants. But both unskilled immigrants arriving as adults and all skilled immigrants …
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international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
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-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in … toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men …
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-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in … toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants … immigrants' chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants' risk of …
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skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are … sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present …We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing …
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skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants …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 …
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