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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …
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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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bias, I estimated hukou-based earning discrimination by matching Chinese individuals based on a rich set of individual … self-employment and no labor contract conditions, discrimination exists only when others employ them and where a labor … contract condition is enforced. Moreover, they face discrimination only when they work for the Chinese government, not when …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … characterized by search frictions and skill complementarities in production can replicate these regularities. We estimate the model … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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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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wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …
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I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor …. The distribution of unemployment worker types adjusts slowly, which amplifies job creation in the short run. In the long … run, falling unemployment curtails the firms' vacancy posting. The model closely matches time-series moments from U …
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