Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,968
Cover Image
Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021
To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email … requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find that patients' ethnicity, as signaled by distinct Turkish versus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705540
Cover Image
Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021
To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email … requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find that patients' ethnicity, as signaled by distinct Turkish versus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665388
Cover Image
Rental housing discrimination and the persistence of ethnic enclaves
Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Carnero, M. Angeles; Farré, Lídia - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 2, pp. 129-152
We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for …, Madrid and Barcelona. We send emails showing interest in the apartments and signal the applicants' ethnicity by using native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311749
Cover Image
Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria
Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020
As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319585
Cover Image
Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298807
Cover Image
Decomposing discrimination: why a holistic approach to racism hides more than it reveals
Koopmans, Ruud - 2021
that such a concept of racism is not very helpful in understanding actual patterns of discrimination. Phenotype, ethnicity … as ethnicity and religion. In addition, the "intersectional" interactions between these different characteristics are a … and religion each have independent effects on discrimination. Tendencies towards discrimination differ greatly between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647872
Cover Image
Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958
Cover Image
Cultural Assimilation and Ethnic Discrimination : An Audit Study with Schools
Martinez de Lafuente, David - 2021
socioeconomic composition and political preferences of the population do not affect the size of discrimination and returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244053
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32
At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573458