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The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...
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When workers are displaced from their jobs in mass layoffs or firm closures, they experience lasting adverse labor market consequences. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience when returning to the labor market. Using novel measures of skill...
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Although explicit discrimination in access to social programs is typically prohibited, more subtle forms of … discrimination prior to the formal application process may still exist. Unveiling this phenomenon, we provide the first causal … evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to > 18, 000 early child …
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We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from …, discrimination against migrants does not differ by the perceived educational background of the email sender. However, it does differ … shares, and lower financial resources. Discrimination on the child care market likely perpetuates existing inequalities of …
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It is well established that female students perform better when taught by female professors. However, little is known about the mechanisms explaining these gender match effects. Using administrative records from a German public university, which cover all programs and courses between 2006 and...
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average treatment effect for the treated, we focus on discrimination in the funding rules as potential source of effect …
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This study estimates the establishment-level employment effects of investment grants in Germany. In addition to the average treatment effect on the treated, we analyse the influence of establishment’s characteristics and economic environment on the magnitude of the effect. We apply a...
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