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This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire … both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced … firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in all firms. Consequently, discrimination allows unprejudiced firms to …
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This paper empirically examines the relationship between the self-identity as Indigenous and earnings inequality in the Mexican labor market. Using Mexican Census data and a large set of wage covariates reveals the existence of an earnings penalty for self-identification as Indigenous. There is...
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Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …
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referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …, followed by their working experience. On the other hand, education acts as a contributor for discrimination in the labor market. …
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Discrimination Act. We estimate wage gaps at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution, and decompose them into …-related reduced productivity, and a residual part which we can more confidently interpret as discrimination. For physically disabled … evidence of wage discrimination. …
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Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates …
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driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our …
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national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a …
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. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub …-optimal equilibrium whereby (i) rooted French exhibit taste-based discrimination against those they are able to identify as Muslims and … because Muslims, perceiving discrimination as institutionalized, are reluctant to assimilate and rooted French, who are able …
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This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...
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