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The Employment of the Roma - Evidence from Hungary
Kertesi, Gabor - 2004
are accounted for, focusing on the role of low schooling, regional backwardness, and labour market discrimination. …
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The employment of the Roma : evidence from Hungary
Kertesi, Gábor - 2004
are accounted for, focusing on the role of low schooling, regional backwardness, and labour market discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521483
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Indigenous Migration and the Labour Market: A Cautionary Tale
Biddle, Nicholas - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 13 (2010) 3, pp. 313-330
During the last intercensal period there was a net transfer of Indigenous Australians to urban Australia from more remote parts of the country. With the withdrawal of a number of Indigenous specific labour market programs, this net migration is likely to intensify into the future. The aim of...
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Proximity to Labour Markets: Revisiting Indigenous Employment Through an Analysis of Census Place of Work Data
Biddle, Nicholas - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 13 (2010) 2, pp. 175-189
One of the six targets as part of the current ‘Closing the Gap’ agenda is to halve the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a decade (by 2018). Much of the focus around meeting this target has been the availability of jobs in remote Australia....
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An Analysis of the Internal Migration of Indigenous and Non-indigenous Australians
Biddle, Nicholas; Hunter, Boyd - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 4, pp. 321-341
Enhancing migration and mobility has been put forward by various commentators as a solution to Indigenous disadvantage in Australia, This paper examined patterns of migration and factors associated with the decision to move and the choice of destination in order to assess the feasibility of this...
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333250
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Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559587
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586066
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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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