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Ethnic background and the value of self-employment experience: evidence from a randomized field experiment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2020

In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued … in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive … consider applicants with experience solely from self-employment, or applicants with a mix of experience from wage-employment …

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'It's Not that I'm a Racist', it's that They are Roma : Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe

O'Higgins, Niall - 2015

, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML methods are employed to control for endogenous schooling and two sources of … extent of discrimination. The key results are that: the employment returns to education are lower for Roma than for non …

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Educational Attainment, Wages and Employment of Second-Generation Immigrants in France

Langevin, Gabin - 2013

-generation immigrants and their French native counterparts. Second-generation immigrants have on average a lower probability of employment …-European origins do not differ significantly from their French native counterparts. The employment gap between French natives and …

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Gender, social networks and peformance

Lindenlaub, Ilse; Prummer, Anja - 2016

This paper documents gender differences in social ties and develops a theory that links them to disparities in men's and women's labor market performance. Men's networks lead to better access to information, women's to higher peer pressure. Both affect effort in a model of teams, each beneficial...

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Is there a penalty for becoming a woman? : is there a premium for becoming a man? ; evidence from a sample of transsexual workers

Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015

We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than men. Second, we compare transsexuals before and after transition using worker fixed effects...

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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments

Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...

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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment : routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS

Mahutga, Matthew C.; Curran, Michaela; Roberts, Anthony - 2018

Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...

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Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China

Zhang, Wenjie; Zou, Xianqiang; Luo, Chuliang; Yuan, Lulu - In: Journal of population economics : international … 37 (2024) 2, pp. 1-41

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The labor market effects of drug-related violence in a transit country

Ham, Andrés; Ruiz, Juanita - 2024

We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a...

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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...

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