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In defense of Private Discrimination: The case for religious freedom to deny services to individuals
Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey; … - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2015
Advocates of the war against discrimination and affirmative action claim it is necessary to set up additional … there is no set definition of a minority who suffered from discrimination in the past (Historically Excluded Groups [HEGs … authorities) as well as the behavior of bureaucrats who have the authority to defend people against discrimination. Incentives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264760
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Immigration Control & Long-Run Population Welfare
Aslanyan, Gurgen - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2012
The current study assesses the effects of immigration control on the welfare of the current and future population of a host economy. A theoretical model of a small open economy populated with overlapping generations of heterogeneous agents is used to show that skillfavouring immigration policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842936
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098315
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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State?: Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615362
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615601
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Social Security Personal-Account Participation with Government Matching
Engelhardt, Gary V.; Kumar, Anil - Center for Retirement Research (CRR), Boston College - 2004
This paper examines the potential impact of government matching contributions on personal-account participation in the President's Commission on Strengthening Social Security's Model 3 for Social Security reform. Given the government's choice of four plan-design parameters, the magnitude of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273192
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Roma integration in European labor markets
Kahanec, Martin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe—as well as one of the most disadvantaged. A triple vicious circle is … to ill-chosen policies; and segmentation is perpetuated through (statistical) discrimination. A severe lack of data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884413
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The educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania
Cekota, Jaromir; Trentini, Claudia - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2011
This paper investigates the educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma … information. It shows that in spite of a small improvement in the educational attainment of young Roma in comparison to the …-communist period. The paper also compares living conditions of the Roma with other population groups. It concludes with a discussion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364726
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"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
extent of discrimination. The key results are that: the employment returns to education are lower for Roma than for non-Roma …. Explanations of why Roma fare so badly tend to fall into one of two camps: 'low education' vs. 'discrimination'. The analysis …This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103264
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Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered … most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination …
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