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of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis (SMH) argues that low-skilled minorities residing in U.S. inner cities experience poor labour-market outcomes because they are disconnected from suburban job opportunities. This assumption gave rise to an abundant empirical literature, which confirmed this...
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While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … gap: because concentrated industries face little competitive pressure to reduce discrimination, an increase in competition …
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This paper explores the structure of cross-border health purchasing between Austria and Hungary and determines the size of this phenomenon as well as the barriers to a further increase. Austrian patients may receive health care treatment in Hungary in three different ways. First, patients may...
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using a rich dataset on dwellings and their occupants yield evidence of such discrimination and prejudice. They also suggest …
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Race and ethnicity play a central role in understainding the structure of inequality in the United States. In this paper, we focus on the economic chasm between black and white America and what economic theory can contribute to our understanding of both inequality and the design of effective policy.
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directly in order to differentiate between statistical discrimination and preference-based discrimination. We present clear …
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This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against … loosening of the government’s egalitarian wage setting policies, leaving more space for discrimination in state …
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While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … gap: because concentrated industries face little competitive pressure to reduce discrimination, an increase in competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566409
In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about … employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter …, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. Discrimination was higher in …
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