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Glass ceilings or glass doors? Wage disparity within and between firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs - that is, glass ceilings - is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...
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High Unemployment in Germany: Why do Foreigners Suffer Most?
Geis, Wido - 2010
In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment...
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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the Swiss context stems from two stylized facts...
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Mind the gap: A detailed picture of the immigrant-native earnings gap in the UK using longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - 2011
primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … proportionately larger non-white and lower paid white immigration. …
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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination : approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
. -- immigration ; migration ; labour market ; culture ; political preferences ; wage discrimination ; Switzerland …
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Perception of workplace discrimination among immigrants and native born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget M.; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2013
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …
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I'm neither racist nor xenophobic, but: dissecting European attitudes towards a ban on Muslims' immigration
Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2018
paper also provides evidence that racism and immigration phobia play a key role in shaping Europeans' support of a ban on … Muslim immigration. This finding challenges the discourse and campaigns of the populist groups who exploit the 'Islamization … of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the …
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Public opinion and immigration : who favors employment discrimination against immigrants?
Cooray, Arusha; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Nazir, Maliha - 2018
Using information from the world values survey wave 6 containing information from 78,743 respondents in 53 countries, we examine the factors which influence respondents' answers to the question: "when jobs are scarce, should employers give priority to people of the country of origin rather than...
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Who Gets a Swiss Passport? A Natural Experiment in Immigrant Discrimination
Hainmueller, Jens; Hangartner, Dominik - 2014
We study discrimination against immigrants using micro-level data from Switzerland, where, until recently, some municipalities used referendums to decide on the citizenship applications of foreign residents. We show that naturalization decisions vary dramatically with immigrants' attributes,...
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