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We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for … the geographical assimilation process by immigrants. We employ the Internet platform to identify vacant rental apartments … studies, immigrants face a differential treatment when trying to rent an apartment. Our results also indicate that this …
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This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … significant ?unexplained differences? for males that may be ascribed to ?discrimination? against Asian migrants. However, the … panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of …
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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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Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important … cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted a field experiment in the low-wage labor …. Together these results point to the subtle but systematic forms of discrimination that continue to shape employment …
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Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little … towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic discrimination from a field experiment in the Swedish housing market to re … empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes …
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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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evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the right … to conduct discrimination tests and to even prosecute firms, implying that discriminating firms face the risk of a … significant penalty. Other European countries have been reluctant to use such tests as a tool for counteracting discrimination and …
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We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …
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We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … (a more established migrant group) suffering less discrimination than Chinese and Middle Easterners (who have typically …
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This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the … being invited to an interview between natives and immigrants, while having foreign qualifications only explains the … remaining 23 per cent. This in turn, suggests a lower bound for statistical discrimination of approximately 23 per cent of total …
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