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The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe - as well as one of the most disadvantaged. A triple vicious circle …, leading to ill-chosen policies; and segmentation is perpetuated through (statistical) discrimination. A severe lack of data …
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As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
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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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discrimination as typically measured, but its main impact is through lowering Roma educational attainment suggesting an additional …Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of … educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other - or both. A number of studies have found that …
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effects of appearance, ethnicity, and veiling simultaneously and propose underlying mechanisms. We find robust effects of …. However, positive characteristics mitigate discrimination against headscarf and even reverse it. …
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discrimination against LGBTQ+ (here restricted to individuals self-identified as gay or lesbian) job seekers in the labor market … discrimination in terms of hiring recommendations, job fit assessments, or wage offers. However, a closer analysis reveals a gender …-based differential treatment. Female LGBTQ+ candidates received positive discrimination, were more likely to be selected and offered …
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Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We … investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize … measures produce qualitatively similar results, and, opposite to the observational studies, suggests that ethnic discrimination …
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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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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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This paper empirically examines the relationship between the self-identity as Indigenous and earnings inequality in the Mexican labor market. Using Mexican Census data and a large set of wage covariates reveals the existence of an earnings penalty for self-identification as Indigenous. There is...
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