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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …
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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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We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … ethnic groups rather than focusing on a single minority as in most other studies. In all cases, we applied for entry … statistically significant differences in callback rates, suggesting that ethnic minority candidates would need to apply for more …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 … per cent higher in the absence of discrimination. This is somewhat higher than previous estimates have indicated. …
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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 Minority groups relative to Whites) or whether it results from some form of … sensitive to the methodology used. This calls into question previous results based on simple regression techniques, which are …
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Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA) covers two cohorts of recent migrants to Australia that differ considerably … in immigration selection criteria and other policy settings, as well as in the macroeconomic employment conditions at … macroeconomic and immigration policy setting of Cohort 2. Although the advantage derived from the Cohort 2 setting is not itself …
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This Paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … for native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on … native employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the …
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