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In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the...
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In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450962
and their descendants converge towards or diverge from the partnership practices of the native-born population in Western …, immigrants and their descendants simultaneously in an analysis of extensive partnership transitions covering practices of … to the first union (including both cohabitation and marriage). Immigrants and their descendants tend to marry directly …
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socio-economic exclusion.Using OLS regression we find significant wage premiums for PC and internet usage at the workplace … exclusion increases markedly for those not having ICT at the workplace,with the largest effects being found in Britain ….To examine the impact of ICT on social exclusion,we create a multi-dimensional index of social exclusion,and also following DFL97 …
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Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …
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Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …
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This paper investigates supply-side discrimination in the labor market for Boston taxi drivers. Using data on millions … drivers discriminate and find that this discrimination is primarily statistical rather than taste-based. As drivers gain … experience and learn to better anticipate wage variation, discrimination decreases. …
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