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their labour market outcomes and their quality of life. We interpret the negative effect on wages as evidence of labour … market discrimination. We estimate the welfare effects of negative attitudes, through their wage and local amenities, for …
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their labour market outcomes and their quality of life. We interpret the negative effect on wages as evidence of labour … market discrimination. We estimate the welfare effects of negative attitudes, through their wage and local amenities, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010581009
traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages … and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher …-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …
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This paper investigates the roots of potential labour-market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between … obesity and hourly wages. Using a panel dataset of white individuals drawn from the U.S. 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of … Youth (NLSY97), we test whether residual wage gaps could be attributed to prejudice (taste-based discrimination) and …
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bias, I estimated hukou-based earning discrimination by matching Chinese individuals based on a rich set of individual … self-employment and no labor contract conditions, discrimination exists only when others employ them and where a labor … contract condition is enforced. Moreover, they face discrimination only when they work for the Chinese government, not when …
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Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...
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-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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