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Wage inequality and job insecurity among permanent and contract workers in India: evidence from organized manufacturing industries

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2006

increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage …

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Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries

Bhandari, Amit; Heshmati, Almas - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage …

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On The Measurement Of Illegal Wage Discrimination: The Michael Jordan Paradox

Rodríguez, Juan Prieto; Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

Standard wage discrimination models assume that independent observers are able to distinguish a priori which workers … are suffering from discrimination. However, this assumption may be inadequate when severe penalties can be imposed on … classification of workers. In fact, the standard discrimination model can be seen as a particular case of our method when the …

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Dynamic Racial Triangulation : Examining the Racial Order Using an Experiment on Discrimination by White Millennials

Gaddis, S. Michael - 2020

Scholars argue that the traditional binary racial order model of the U.S. is outdated and acknowledge that racial systems can shift in response to demographic, political, and economic changes. In the coming years, White Millennials will exert ever-greater political and economic power in shaping...

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Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination: evidence from a choice experiment

Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Derous, Eva - 2021

Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible … hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect …

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Donne e lavoro in Italia e nelle Marche. Il punto sulle dif?colta e sulle prospettive

GOFFI, Gianluca - In: Economia Marche / Journal of Applied Economics XXXI (2012) 2, pp. 129-154

Le donne sono altamente penalizzate nel mercato del lavoro italiano. Non e solo un problema di crisi economica, molti fattori impediscono un aumento del tasso di partecipazione femminile in Italia. Tali fattori vengono analizzati nel paper. In particolare, si esamina la relazione fra donne e...

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Did Bologna reform improve school-to-work transition of graduates? Evidence from Slovenia

Domadenik, Polona; Farcnik, Dasa - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación

Purpose: This paper investigates the school-to-work transition of graduates in a framework of a quazi experiment. In a predominately tuition free system we use differences in probability of employment after graduation to infer about the causal effect of different field of study and type of study...

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Employment status and perceived health condition: longitudinal data from Italy

Minelli, Liliana; Pigini, Claudia; Chiavarini, Manuela; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The considerable increase of non-standard labor contracts, unemployment and inactivity rates raises the question of whether job insecurity and the lack of job opportunities affect physical and mental well-being differently from being employed with an open-ended contract. In this paper we offer...

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Informal and Formal Sector Participation and Earnings in a LDC: The Importance of Time and Migration

Karpestam, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011

Theoretical and empirical research points to potentially different patterns of labor recruitment and importance of social networks in the formal and informal sector. The paper touches upon this topic and investigates the conjecture that employment chances and expected earnings depend differently...

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