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in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …. We incorporate a model of “informational” peer influence by which beliefs of pupils are affected by exposure to other … pupils’ posterior beliefs. Specifically, we focus on the beliefs of private school graduates about the productivity of state …
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this is largely explained by a matching decline in ‘Oaxaca's discrimination,’ suggesting extraordinary improvement of women …
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education process. We test this idea using the National Child Development Study. Our theoretical model suggests that the effort … estimation of the education production function. Our results support this, and indicate which factors affect examination results …
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discrimination or to individual effort. The absence of any evidence of regional discrimination in the process by which misconduct …
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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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study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is … worker on ethnic grounds. In addition, we find that the standard theory of statistical discrimination fails to explain … observed choices, and that taking ethnic prejudice into account helps to predict the incidence of discrimination. …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that...
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The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...
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key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …
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