Le donne sono altamente penalizzate nel mercato del lavoro italiano. Non e solo un problema di crisi economica, molti fattori impediscono un aumento del tasso di partecipazione femminile in Italia. Tali fattori vengono analizzati nel paper. In particolare, si esamina la relazione fra donne e...

We use data from a nationally representative Australian household panel survey to examine the extent and nature of self-reported job discrimination, its correlates, and its associations with various employment outcomes and measures of subjective wellbeing. We find that approximately 8.5 per cent...

We use data from a nationally representative Australian household panel survey to examine the extent and nature of self-reported job discrimination, its correlates, and its associations with various employment outcomes and measures of subjective wellbeing. We find that approximately 8.5% of job...

Hay dos temas transversales que se abordan en este volumen; uno es la exclusión, definida como la restricción de la posibilidad de acceso a algún servicio, bien público u oportunidad, entendida esta en el sentido amplio. La segunda es la discriminación, entendida como el trato desigual,...

This paper investigates how the ethnic gap in employment rates varies across skill levels. Instead of stratifying our sample in many dimensions (age groups, education levels...), we introduce a method that allows us to study the heterogeneity of binary outcomes with respect to all covariates at...

A model of racial discrimination provides testable implications for two features of statistical discriminators: differential treatment of signals by race and heterogeneous experience that shapes perception. We construct an experiment in the U.S. rental apartment market that distinguishes...

Recent empirical studies have revealed prejudice based on country of origin in the Swiss naturalization system before courts banned closed ballot voting in 2003. Although the switch to elected councils has ameliorated the situation for the discriminated applicant groups, little has been known...

A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries across the world, and most report a substantial...

The labour market in India has been segmented into a formal and informal sector. More than 85% of the labour force is engaged in the informal sector. Since the informal sector does not follow labour laws such as provisions of minimum wage and social security, there is enough scope for...

This paper studies the persistence of inequality and lack of intergenerational mobility in a human capital accumulation model with perfect certainty, missing credit markets, endogenous training costs and dynastic utility maximization by households. Persistent inequality and immobility in steady...