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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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Racial wage differentials in developed countries
Longhi, Simonetta - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
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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Eliminating discrimination in hiring isn't enough
Alston, Mackenzie - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)
While many firms have recognized the importance of recruiting and hiring diverse job applicants, they should also pay attention to the challenges newly hired diverse candidates may face after entering the company. It is possible that they are being assessed by unequal or unequitable standards...
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Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund zahlen elf Euro mehr Miete pro Monat
Winke, Tim - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 47, pp. 1133-1143
lower purchasing power. Using the decomposition method, this report illustrates the empirical background of the difference …
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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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Estimating the effect of mortgage foreclosures on nearby property values: A critical review of the literature
Frame, W. Scott - In: Economic Review 95 (2010)
In response to the wave of residential mortgage foreclosures in the past few years, federal, state and local government … intervention programs have aimed to reduce the presumed social costs of foreclosures. Before the recent crisis, there was little … seeks to estimate the negative effects of residential mortgage foreclosures. This review suggests that foreclosed properties …
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Transnational social mobility of minorities: A comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups
Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21
There is extensive scholarship on the condition of being a minority in one's home country and vast literature on the experience of immigrants in host countries. However, almost no attention has been paid to the distinct mechanisms pertaining to immigrants who were minorities in the source...
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Refugee children's earnings in adulthood
Yoshida, Yoko; Amoyaw, Jonathan; McLay, Rachel - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)
The number of refugees has increased worldwide, and about half of them are children and youth. These refugee children arrive in resettlement countries with a unique set of challenges caused by, for instance, extreme stress and trauma that call for specific policies to address their needs. Yet,...
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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 …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against … immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …
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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and … distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant differences in callback rates by ethnicity. These differences vary …
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