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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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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/10001528504
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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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Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies
Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent; Schäfer, Jérôme - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most debated rules. We begin by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072883
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Public charge in the time of coronavirus
Tepepa, Martha - 2020
The United States government recently passed legislation and stabilization packages to respond to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free virus testing; expanding food assistance and unemployment benefits; and increasing Medicaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199397
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Public Service Performance and Good Administration : Socio-Economic Empirical Evaluations
Matei, Lucica - 2016
The field literature reveals multiple approaches of local public service performance. Directly managed by public administrative institutions or by private agents through concession or public-private partnership, the public services should respond to important requirements concerning the higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986711
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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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Discrimination and health outcomes in England's Black communities amid the cost-of-living crisis : evaluating the role of inflation and Bank Rates
Drydakis, Nick - 2024
discrimination and deteriorations in both general and mental health for Black individuals. Moreover, it was found that during the … cost-of-living crisis period, i.e., 2022-2023, discrimination was more adversely related to general and mental health … experienced higher levels of discrimination and reduced general and mental health compared to reference groups. The findings of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075349
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Sharper Axes, Lower Taxes - Big Steps to a Smaller State
Booth, Philip - 2011
The government's 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review was anything but comprehensive. The cuts to government spending were modest, and large swathes of state activity were barely touched. Britain will remain a heavily regulated, high-tax, high-spend economy. Instead of totally reviewing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120040