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of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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discrimination as it concerns differences in methodology, data, countries and time periods. We place particular emphasis on a proper …
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of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
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The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in …
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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 study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field … experiment in two Italian cities: Rome and Milan, by sending fake CVs to real ads. We find that there is a strong penalty for …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
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addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. In … higher pay increases in response to outside offers. This may arise due to discrimination, and we find that perceptions of … discrimination and also outside job applications correlate with an individual receiving earnings below that expected, given their …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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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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