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Scholars argue that the traditional binary racial order model of the U.S. is outdated and acknowledge that racial systems can shift in response to demographic, political, and economic changes. In the coming years, White Millennials will exert ever-greater political and economic power in shaping...
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Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible … hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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discrimination among Millennials via “roommate wanted” advertisements. We send over 4,000 emails and find a tiered pattern of … discrimination against Asian (Indian and Chinese), Hispanic, and Black room-seekers. However, whether Asian and Hispanic room …-seekers face significant discrimination varies based on whether they use predominantly White first names or traditional first names …
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Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition...
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Researchers increasingly use correspondence audit studies to study racial/ethnic discrimination in employment, housing …, and other domains. Although this method provides strong causal evidence of racial/ethnic discrimination, these claims … perceptions of the names used to examine discrimination. I conduct a survey experiment that asks respondents to identify the race …
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-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co …
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-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co …
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We analyze the magnitude and the causes of the low formal employment rate of the Roma in Hungary between 1993 and 2007. The employment rate of the Roma dropped dramatically around 1990. The ethnic employment gap has been 40 percentage points for both men and women and has stayed remarkably...
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