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Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …
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Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...
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. Together, these findings do not suggest that black NBA coaches are subject to racial discrimination in entry, pay or retention. …
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occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and …
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A small literature suggests that bisexual and homosexual workers earn less than their heterosexual fellow workers and that a discriminating labor market is partly to blame. In this paper we examine whether sexual preferences affect earnings in the beginning of working careers in the Netherlands....
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The paper explains how workers' expectations of being discriminated against can be self-confirming, accounting for the persistence of unequal outcomes in the labour market even beyond the causes that originally generated them. The theoretical framework used is a two-stage game of incomplete...
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This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of … discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination … discriminatory practices in the region. This puzzle, where individuals perceive discrimination is in the air, but few act …
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prejudice based theories of employer and employee discrimination against gay and lesbian workers. …
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This paper investigates the roots of potential labour-market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between … Youth (NLSY97), we test whether residual wage gaps could be attributed to prejudice (taste-based discrimination) and …/or statistical discrimination. To this end, we examine how these two types of discrimination hinge on a wide range of obese …
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integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …
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