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Identity-based earning discrimination among Chinese people
Siddique, Abu Bakkar - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-42
Hukou registration is an instrument to control nonplanned population and capital movements, which the Chinese Communist Party has been exploiting extensively since the 1950s. It requires that each Chinese citizen be classified as either an agricultural or nonagricultural hukou inheritor and be...
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career: Evidence from Kosovo's school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile
Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242
In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these distributions into age, year and cohort effects....
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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32
At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America's African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....
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Wage discrimination against immigrants: Measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-24
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67(4):1166-1202, 2014) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity...
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Consequences of immigrating during a recession: Evidence from the US Refugee Resettlement program
Mask, Joshua - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-31
Are there long-term labor consequences in migrating to the US during a recession? For most immigrants, credibly estimating this effect is difficult because of selective migration. Some immigrants may not move if economic conditions are not favorable. However, identification is possible for...
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Labour market returns to higher education in Vietnam
Doan, Tinh; Stevens, Philip - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-12, pp. 1-21
This paper employs the Ordinary Least Squares, Instrumental Variables and Treatment Effect models to a new dataset from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) to estimate return to four-year university education in 2008. Our estimates reveal that income premium of four-year...
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Do anti-discrimination policies work?
Valfort, Marie-Anne - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Discrimination is a complex, multi-factor phenomenon. Evidence shows widespread discrimination on various grounds, including ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or beliefs, disability, being over 55 years old, or being a woman. Combating discrimination requires combining...
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Working beyond the normal retirement age in urban China and urban Russia
Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorožkina, Ljudmila Ivanovna; … - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21
The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China … healthy, and having a higher education level. It is negatively associated with age, the scale of pension, and, in urban China …, being female. We find that seniors in urban Russia are more likely to work for earnings than their counterparts in China …
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Racial wage differentials in developed countries
Longhi, Simonetta - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
In many developed countries, racial and ethnic minorities are paid, on average, less than the native white majority. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and further generations. Eliminating racial wage...
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