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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698191
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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336853
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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending
Dobbie, Will - 2019
Kingdom. We motivate our analysis using a simple model of discrimination in lending, which predicts that profits should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897960
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661529
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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2021
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321244
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Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence
Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256131
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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages
Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2009
preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898821
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Is smoking behavior culturally determined? : evidence from British immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696931
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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Indian entrepreneurial success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212363