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countries in EU. Although virulent discrimination does not occur on the Romanian labor market, this phenomenon may delay the … main forms of discrimination at the regional level based on the following indicators: the Duncan Index at local level; rate … discrimination by sex, nationality, and age; wage gap and occupational segregation by gender. They will also assess the effects of …
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We conduct a correspondence study to assess demand for soft skills in the context of hiring discrimination in Malaysia …. We find no evidence of gender-based discrimination, including in STEM occupations. However, in line with previous studies … in the same context, we find evidence of ethnic discrimination. We then test the relevance of two soft skills: leadership …
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...
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, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …
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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 presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and … imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the presence of taste-based discrimination and of other firm-level mechanisms … significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …
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Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively … mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to …-based and statistical discrimination against the empirical reality. First, we observed that the measurement operationalisation …
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. However, positive characteristics mitigate discrimination against headscarf and even reverse it. …
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, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …
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