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Video resumes and job search outcomes: evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Goussé, Marion; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2020
also evaluate the service for individuals with acute visible disabilities (wheelchair users). Although our results support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286324
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Physical disability and labor market discrimination : evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Goussé, Marion; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2018
We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845135
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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?
Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020
We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities … children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …. One potential effect of our results is that children with disabilities are referred to less attractive schools than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208785
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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?
Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020
We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities … admission for their children. Our results reveal that Swedish preschools discriminated against children with these disabilities … effect of our results is that children with disabilities are referred to as less attractive preschools than children with no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200004
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Physical disability and labor market discrimination : evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Goussé, Marion; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2018
We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822723
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Competiton and the gender wage gap: new evidence from linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2003
Lovász, Anna (contributor) - 2008
The overall gender wage gap fell from .31 to .15 between 1986 and 2003 following the transition to a free market in Hungary. During the same time period, firms faced increased competition from both new domestic and foreign firms due to the rapid liberalization measures implemented by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719304
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Earnings functions and the measurement of the determinants of wage dispersion : extending Oaxaca's approach
Silber, Jacques (contributor) - 2007
This paper extends the famous Blinder and Oaxaca (1973) discrimination in several directions. First, the wage difference breakdown is not limited to two groups. Second, a decomposition technique is proposed that allows analysis of the determinants of the overall wage dispersion. The authors’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727247
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The labor market consequences of gender differences in job search
Eriksson, Stefan (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777354
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Discrimination in Latin America : an elephant in the room?
Chong, Alberto (contributor); Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007
This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination occurs may be built on the basis of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776328
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Inference on counterfactual distributions
Chernozhukov, Victor; Fernández-Val, Iván; Melly, Blaise - 2009
In this paper we develop procedures for performing inference in regression models about how potential policy interventions affect the entire marginal distribution of an outcome of interest. These policy interventions consist of either changes in the distribution of covariates related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003838972