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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination: A Cross-European Analysis

Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009

explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the discrimination hypothesis. Using a cross section of 13 countries, we show … interpret this result as evidence of employer discrimination in favor of taller workers. Our results are consistent with the …

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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …

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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086979

Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2010

In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation

Haupt, Alexander - 2010

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries 1986-2006

Boubtane, Ekrame - 2015

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native- and foreign-born populations by skill level. Specifically, after...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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