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Discrimination and health outcomes in England's Black communities amid the cost-of-living crisis : evaluating the role of inflation and Bank Rates

Drydakis, Nick - 2024

discrimination and deteriorations in both general and mental health for Black individuals. Moreover, it was found that during the … cost-of-living crisis period, i.e., 2022-2023, discrimination was more adversely related to general and mental health … experienced higher levels of discrimination and reduced general and mental health compared to reference groups. The findings of …

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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...

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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents

Mann, Samuel - 2020

This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...

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Job market discrimination against slum dwellers in urban Argentina

Zanoni, Wladimir; Acevedo, Paloma; Hernández, Hugo - 2022

discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise … applicants living in slums received nearly 28 percent fewer callbacks than other applicants. We observe discrimination across … jobs that require a university degree, with discrimination being concentrated in administrative and software …

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Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina; Wang, Chunbei - 2021

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians became the victims of a sudden increase in racial discrimination as … customer and employer 'taste discrimination'. The pandemic has also proven particularly harmful on businesses owned by recently …

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