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Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market
Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791515
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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country
Arceo-Gómez, Eva Olimpia; Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2013
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685968
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Efectos de los ingresos no reportados en el nivel y tendencia de la pobreza laboral en México
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2013
The proportion of wage workers with missing labor income has recently increased in Mexico. In this article, I correct the missing labor income through imputation methods. The official measurement of labor poverty indicates an increase from 42 to 53% in the 2005-2012 period, but poverty measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686702
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Triple punishment in employment access: the role of beauty, race and sex
Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2012
"We investigate the role of physical appearance, in addition to race and sex, in the rate of discrimination observed in … the selection process (mainly, education and job experience), our results provide better indicators of discrimination than … the ones we could obtain through the econometric analysis of observational data. We find that discrimination based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842562
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Labor Market Discrimination in Lima, Peru: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2011
We analyze labor discrimination in Peru, a fast-growing country where much anecdotal evidence suggests the presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842565
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What Drives the Gender Gap? An Analysis Using Sexual Orientation
Montag, Josef - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2014
Gender differences in productivity, if any, that are unobserved to researchers may produce an omitted variable bias in gender gap studies. Finding a subpopulation with less acute differences in unobserved characteristics would allow this concern to be addressed. This paper argues that gays and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842903
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What Drives the Gender Gap? An Analysis Using Sexual Orientation
Montag, Josef - Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova Univerzita v Brnĕ - 2014
Gender differences in productivity, if any, that are unobserved to researchers may produce an omitted variable bias in gender gap studies. Finding a subpopulation with less acute differences in unobserved characteristics would allow this concern to be addressed. This paper argues that gays and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751638
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Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions. When Do They Arise?
BAERT, Stijn; COCKX, Bart - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual “pure ethnic gap”. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075070
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Group Profiling for Alcohol Impaired Motorists with Driving Skills Disparities: Should we Care for Fairness?
Cely, Sergio Parra - UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA - BOGOTÁ - 2011
policing is explainedby prejudice or taste-based discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167322
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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance and self-confidence across the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at either end of the wage distribution. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188126