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Sex, Race, and Job Satisfaction among Highly Educated Workers

Hersch, Joni; Xiao, Jean - 2015

There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...

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Discrimination against Migrants in Austria: An Experimental Study

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2015

matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration … background, it is most pronounced for applicants with an African background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a … discrimination in Austria. …

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to Internet job board applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant...

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Hiring discrimination based on national origin and religious closeness: Results from a field experiment in the Paris area

Pierné, Guillaume - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

suburbs. We find evidences of significant hiring discrimination against applicants of North African origin, regardless of …

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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014

We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...

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Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2014

We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … attention discrimination: less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy. …

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Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification

Hunter, Boyd; Howlett, Monica; Biddle, Nicholas - 2014

discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or … intensifies the emotional response to the object of discrimination. This paper builds on this insight based on the understanding … be the object of discrimination. A theoretical model is constructed that predicts that the choice to identify interacts …

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Discrimination against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016

attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …

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Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016

attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663276

Acculturation and the labor market in Mexico

Cano-Urbina, Javier; Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-29

This paper empirically examines the relationship between the self-identity as Indigenous and earnings inequality in the Mexican labor market. Using Mexican Census data and a large set of wage covariates reveals the existence of an earnings penalty for self-identification as Indigenous. There is...

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