experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …

experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …

high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …

differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women … differentials ; discrimination ; search models ; maximum likelihood estimation ; structural estimation ; affirmative action …

characterizing the gap when, as in recent decades, the wage distribution dramatically changes. This study of recent immigrants … differences, that minimum wages strongly influenced the gap. A counterfactual analysis also indicates that if recent immigrants in … 1970 had faced the 1990 wage structure, their wage distrubtion would have closely resembled that of recent immigrants in …

captures the causal link from immigrants to native labor outcomes and we show estimates obtained with 2SLS method using the … briefly review the literature on the channels and the mechanisms that allow local economies to absorb immigrants with no …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …