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Ethnic Parity in Labour Market Outcomes for Benefit Claimants

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Mesnard, Alice; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

matching techniques: the characteristics of Whites and Ethnic Minorities are simply too different before the Jobcentre Plus …A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … and the data we have, propensity score matching methods are the most robust approach to estimating ethnic parity. We …

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Unilingual versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Ortega, Javier; Tangeraas, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We define an economy composed of two language groups. Value is created through bilateral trade between individuals who can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual education system, under which the individuals who take...

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Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behaviour by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of...

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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns …

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Minorities and Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas R; Riezman, Raymond - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing …

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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra; Ehrenberg, Shuky; Gelman, Andrew; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is storable votes:...

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Affirmative Action and Efficiency in Education

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the optimal education policy in the presence of different groups of households, with groups differing in the distribution of the ability to benefit from education. The main result is that the high ability individuals from groups with relatively few high ability individuals...

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Circular Movements and Time Away From the Host Country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This Paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years away from the host country using count data models. More than...

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The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

unobserved attitude towards minorities, which drives the distribution of answers by native respondents. This latent variable in …

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Culture, Discrimination and Individual Productivity: Regional Evidence from Personnel Data in a Large Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea; Ichino, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

discrimination or to individual effort. The absence of any evidence of regional discrimination in the process by which misconduct …

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