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Measuring Hiring Discrimination – A History of Field Experiments in Discrimination Research
Zschirnt, Eva - 2016
Ethnic and racial discrimination in the hiring process is a common and documented problem. Scientists from different … backgrounds and numerous countries have tried to measure the extent of this form of discrimination, mostly by using field … discrimination in more general terms as well as reviewing the studies already conducted that focus on ethnic or racial discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992095
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Monopsony in labor markets : a meta-analysis
Sokolova, Anna; Sorensen, Todd - 2018
When jobs offered by different employers are not perfect substitutes in the minds of workers, employers gain wage-setting power; the extent of this power can be captured by the elasticity of labor supply that each employer faces. Estimates of this parameter reported by the literature vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950529
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Monopsony in Labor Markets : A Meta-Analysis
Sokolova, Anna - 2019
When jobs offered by different employers are not perfect substitutes in the minds of workers, employers gain wage-setting power; the extent of this power can be captured by the elasticity of labor supply that each employer faces. Estimates of this parameter reported by the literature vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896763
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Visas and Work Permits : Possible Global Negotiating Initiatives
Ng, Chi-Yung - 2006
We discuss global options for initiatives intended to ameliorate adverse impacts of visa and work permit systems used by national governments around the world. We first describe and document some of their effects, noting the relative lack of other research work on these issues. We then discuss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783399
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International Experience on Protection of Labour Migrants’ Rights and Its Application to Kyrgyzstan
Anderson, Kathryn; Barbone, Luca - 2021
reduce discrimination and abuse of migrant workers; policies that facilitate pension portability for migrants and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248467
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The Place Premium : Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the U.S. Border
Clemens, Michael A. - 2009
wage discrimination in spatially integrated markets; and makes labor mobility capable of reducing households' poverty at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720433
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International Experience on Protection of Labor Migrants’ Rights and Its Application to Kyrgyzstan
Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2017
reduce discrimination and abuse of migrant workers; policies that facilitate pension portability for migrants and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949368
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International Trade, Fairness, and Labour Migration
Herwig, Alexia; Loriaux, Sylvie - 2015
This paper aims to show that fairness in trade calls for relaxing existing WTO rules to include a greater liberalisation of labour migration. After having addressed several objections to global egalitarianism, it will argue, first, that the world’s rich and the world’s poor participate in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132670
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American Economic Nationalism : Corporatist, Neoliberal and Neocorporatist Political Strategic Responses to Contemporary Global Systemic Crises
DeDominicis, Benedict E. - 2021
The political theory focus of this paper is the relevance of corporatism to meet the nationalist backlash against the increasing global interdependence that elites encouraged through neoliberal strategies. The paper analyzes the Trump administration’s resistance to international cooperation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311281
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Innovation contests
Pérez-Castrillo, J. David; Wettstein, David - 2014
We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants' efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260048