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This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the Swiss context stems from two stylized facts...
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-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …
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historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race … same period and have remained constant over the sample period. Most of the race-based occupational segregation is a result …
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Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived … areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour … their variation across areas are partly explained by job characteristics and especially occupation. Since minorities in some …
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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....
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In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...
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factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …
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rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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be used for external moves between firms. We show that when female workers are the minority in the occupation and social … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male … workers are the minority can explain a substantial part of the empirically observable total wage gap stemming from the glass …
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