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Insidious Discrimination? Disentangling the Beauty Premium on a Game Show

Belot, Michèle; Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Van de Ven, Jeroen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

value basis for the beauty premium, and it appears that this is a form of insidious discrimination. …

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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 - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the … widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following … the release of an academic study. Using new data, we confirm that racial bias persisted in the years after the study …

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Discrimination and Skill Differences in an Equilibrium Search Model

Bowlus, Audra J; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect …

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Freedom Fries

Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favourability rating in US public opinion...

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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behaviour. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labour market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder...

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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Gobillon, Laurent; Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities — and particularly blacks — have remained in city centres. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential...

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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

A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy perspective, it is important to know whether this gap is due to differences in the characteristics of White and Ethnic Minority groups (which reduce the employability of Ethnic...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release

Mechoulan, Stéphane; Sahuguet, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … system. Further evidence rules out post-release discrimination. We propose different hypotheses to account for the evidence. …

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