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An Arab, an Asian, and a Black guy walk into a job interview : ethnic stigma in hiring after controlling for social class
Borm, Hannah Van; Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn - 2022
Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...
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Cultural Transmission and Discrimination
Saez-Marti, Maria - 2005
Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to the next through a learning and imitation process which depends on parents' purposeful investment...
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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay difference. This raises the question whether segregation and …-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wage gaps in Trinidad and Tobago’s private and public sector and its … segregation are with 7% in terms of the Karmel-Maclachlan index low and lower than respective gender-based segregation over the …
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - 1995
focused on its interaction with occupational segregation. We found evidence of strong occupational segregation, which we … additional consideration of occupational segregation did not affect these results much. However, by far most of the wage …
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level …, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important …) and calculate an index - mainly the index of dissimilarity - for each of these comparisons, this paper use segregation …
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To Segregate, or to Discriminate – That Is the Question : Experiment on Identity and Social Preferences
Blanco, Mariana; Guerra, José-Alberto - 2020
How do various sources of social identity affect segregation and discrimination decisions? In our laboratory experiment … socioeconomic ones do so in the Trust Game.This segregation pattern is partly explained by payoff-maximizing behavior. In the Trust …
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Do workers discriminate against their out-group employers? : evidence from the gig economy
Asad, Sher Afghan; Banerjee, Ritwik; Bhattacharya, Joydeep - 2020
We study possible worker-to-employer discrimination manifested via social preferences in an online labor market. Specifically, we ask, do workers exhibit positive social preferences for an out-race employer relative to an otherwise-identical, own-race one? We run a well-powered, model-based...
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Der Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Migranten der 2. Generation: Keine Anzeichen für Diskriminierung erkennbar
Schubert, Antje - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 23 (2016) 3, pp. 12-18
Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss des Migrationshintergrundes von Migranten der 2. Generation auf deren Arbeitsmarkterfolg in Deutschland. Die empirische Untersuchung stützt sich auf Daten aus dem Mikrozensus und die Methode des Propensity-Score-Matching. Es zeigt sich, dass die...
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Modelling exposure to risk of experiencing discrimination in the context of endogenous ethnic identification
Hunter, Boyd H.; Howlett, Monica; Biddle, Nicholas - 2014
Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or intensifies the emotional response to the object of...
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Market Competition and Discrimination
Siddique, Abu - 2020
This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition by providing a quality rating and a price quote for...
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