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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill
Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2012
We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other … sector. <p>Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019042
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Measuring Labour Differences between Natives, Non-Natives, and Natives with an Ethnic-Minority Background
Drydakis, Nick - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744693
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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill
Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - 2012
We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other … sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142374
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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill. Extended version
Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - 2015
We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in … the other sector and the effect on labour market performance therefore depends on whether discrimination is present in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142379
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Who is Hurt by Discimination?
Waisman, Gisela; Larsen, Birthe - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2008
The effects of discrimination of immigrants on the labour market are studied within a search and wage …-bargaining setting including a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. The negative effects of discrimination in the … exacerbates the problems of discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648706
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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background
Drydakis, Nick - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731892
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The occupational segregation of Black women in the United States: A look at its evolution from 1940 to 2010
Alonso-Villar, Olga; Rio, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
Based on harmonized and detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pair-wise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women dramatically declined from 1940 to 1980 (especially in the 1960s and 1970s), it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711919
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The Evolution of Occupational Segregation in the U.S., 1940-2010: The Gains and Losses of Gender-Race/Ethnicity Groups
Rio, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
The aim of this paper is twofold: a) To explore the evolution of occupational segregation of women and men of different racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. during the period 1940-2010; and b) to assess the consequences of segregation for each of them. For that purpose, this paper proposes a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878109
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The Evolution of Occupational Segregation in the U.S., 1940-2010: Gains and Losses of Gender- Race/ethnicity Groups
del Río, Coral; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2014
The aim of this paper is twofold: a) to explore the evolution of occupational segregation of women and men of different racial/ethnic groups in the U. S. during the period 1940- 2010 and b) to assess the consequences of segregation for each of them. For that purpose, this paper proposes a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274505
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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature
Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413089