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Studying the unemployment risk during 1992 to 1995 for a sample of employees in 1991, we find that immigrants from the … non-European countries run a risk of unemployment that is twice the corresponding risk for the native workers. There exist … substantial unemployment-risk differentials taking into account employees’ demographic and human capital characteristics, the wage …
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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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-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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This paper investigates the roots of potential labour-market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between … obesity and hourly wages. Using a panel dataset of white individuals drawn from the U.S. 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of … Youth (NLSY97), we test whether residual wage gaps could be attributed to prejudice (taste-based discrimination) and …
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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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Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...
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-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …
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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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With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians became the victims of a sudden increase in racial discrimination as … customer and employer 'taste discrimination'. The pandemic has also proven particularly harmful on businesses owned by recently …
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Drawing on survey data on emigration intentions in Latvia, this paper studies emigration intentions of minorities. The paper shows, that after controlling for other factors, the probability of emigration of a Russian minority individual is higher than that of a majority individual. For Russian...
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