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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
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The prostitute's allure : examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination
Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010
commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal … regressions. -- beauty premium ; discrimination ; sex markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688864
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Big Five personality traits and sex
Jirjahn, Uwe; Ottenbacher, Martha - 2020
Sexual well-being plays an important role in the quality of life. Against this background, we provide an economics-based approach to the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and various dimensions of sexuality. From a theoretical viewpoint, personality influences sexual...
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Sexual orientation and household savings : do homosexual couples save more?
Negrusa, Brighita; Oreffice, Sonia - 2010
We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while cohabiting heterosexuals save more than their married counterparts. In a household savings model,...
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Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics : Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?
Chen, Shuai - 2017
Partnered individuals are happier than singles. This can be because partnership leads to more satisfactory subjective well-being or because happier people are more likely to find a partner. We analyze Dutch panel data to investigate whether there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective...
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Subjective well-being and partnership dynamics : are same-sex relationships different?
Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
Partnered individuals are happier than singles. This can be because partnership leads to more satisfactory subjective well-being or because happier people are more likely to find a partner. We analyze Dutch panel data to investigate whether there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732374
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Sexual Orientation and Household Savings : Do Homosexual Couples Save More?
Negrusa, Brighita - 2010
We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while cohabiting heterosexuals save more than their married counterparts. In a household savings model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141756
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Anti-Muslim discrimination in France : evidence from a field experiment
Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2018
Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819762
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Effects of sexual preferences on earnings in the Netherlands
Plug, Erik J. S.; Berkhout, Peter - 2001
A small literature suggests that bisexual and homosexual workers earn less than their heterosexual fellow workers and that a discriminating labor market is partly to blame. In this paper we examine whether sexual preferences affect earnings in the beginning of working careers in the Netherlands....
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Labor market discrimination and the macroeconomy
Asali, Muhammad; Gurashvili, Rusudan - 2019
, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …
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