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Chapman, Bruce; Kapuscinsky, Cezary - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.

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Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From a Field Experiment

Booth, Alison L; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia -- a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and...

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

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Immigrant Wage Differentials and the Role of Self-Employment in Australia.

Kidd, M.P. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1993

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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 …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

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A Duration Analysis of the Time Taken to Find the First Job for Newly Arrived Migrants in Australia

Thapa, Prem Jung; Gørgens, Tue - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

in immigration selection criteria and other policy settings, as well as in the macroeconomic employment conditions at …

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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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Can Insider Power Affect Employment?

Diaz-Vazquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

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