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Perception of workplace discrimination among immigrants and native born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget M.; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2013
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
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Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688396
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Perception of Workplace Discrimination Among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget - 2013
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077341
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Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-28
the education distribution between immigrants and the native born. Using data for New Zealand, which has an immigration …
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Public opinion and immigration : who favors employment discrimination against immigrants?
Cooray, Arusha; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Nazir, Maliha - 2018
Using information from the world values survey wave 6 containing information from 78,743 respondents in 53 countries, we examine the factors which influence respondents' answers to the question: "when jobs are scarce, should employers give priority to people of the country of origin rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130641
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Migration, Unemployment and Discrimination
Müller, Tobias - 2008
This paper uses a dynamic efficiency-wage model to analyze the consequences of immigration for a small country when … three regimes for rising immigration levels. Immigration is most beneficial for natives in the intermediate regime. An … growing opposition to immigration …
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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …
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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
Fryer, Roland G. - 2014
The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...
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Population with criminal records and racial disparity in labor markets
Boatner, Jasmine - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13
Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment rates in black and white population. Some have proposed that part of the gap for men can be explained by the higher rate of criminal records in the black population. Methods: This...
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Understanding the success of the Know-Nothing party
Alsan, Marcella; Eriksson, Katherine; Niemesh, Gregory - 2020
ofIrish Famine immigration and was at the forefront of industrialization in the United States. Votersin towns with more …
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