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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?
Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 2020
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182567
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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?
Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 2020
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171459
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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2022
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of Whites in adulthood. We find that, 20 years after exposure, Whites who had more Black peers of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367612
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More than just friends? : school peers and adult interracial relationships
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual's cohort on the percentage of adults' cohabiting partners that are black. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580526
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Self-employment, wage employment and informality in a developing economy
Bennett, John; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2012
We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534099
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Asymmetric information in the labor market, immigrants and contract menu
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - 2011
Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230711
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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2009
Das Papier untersucht die 'Jack-of-all-Trades'-Hypothese. Diese unterstellt, dass nicht die Höhe der Produktivität eines Individuums ausschlaggebend ist für eine selbständige Aktivität, sondern deren Bandbreite an Fähigkeiten oder Erfahrung (Lazear 2005). Die Analyse konzentriert sich auf...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874333
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019
first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119937
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - Revised, October 2019
first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124840
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283172