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individual level, people in high sex ratio countries are found to be more hostile against homosexuality and the homosexuals than … (decriminalization) of homosexuality. …
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-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish …
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Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper explores occupational choices when individuals receive imprecise signals regarding ability and use the...
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differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers’ taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …
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interpretation in terms of a certain degree of occupational segregation, rather than mere wage discrimination. …
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increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage …
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implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …
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maximum below the average height for females and above the average for males. We detect endowment and discrimination … influences. The latter are firstly due to employer discrimination and secondarily less likely due to customer discrimination. …
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Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition...
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This study presents evidence of recruitment discrimination against obese individuals in Sweden by sending fictitious … also found that discrimination is the same against men and women and that it varies across occupations in a systematic way … that customer discrimination and/or statistical discrimination based on the correlation between job performance and being …
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