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-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic. Intergenerational improvement is an important source of wage convergence of black immigrants …. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially … Caribbean-English and African-English immigrants. But both unskilled immigrants arriving as adults and all skilled immigrants …
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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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-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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emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than … comparatively higher risk of job loss. In contrast, the Hispanic-white unemployment rate gap is comparatively small and is largely …
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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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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants … immigrants' chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants' risk of …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … immigration enforcement mutes job creation and raises the unemployment rate of all workers, having an even larger detrimental …
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We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms …
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We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant … however of wage discrimination against rural hukou status. A semi-parametric method suggests a larger discrimination against … migrants in the upper half of the wage distribution. Discrimination against migrants seems not to decrease as their duration of …
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