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Does labor market tightness affect ethnic discrimination in hiring?

Carlsson, Magnus; Fumarco, Luca; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2018

Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize three correspondence studies of the Swedish labor...

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The consequences of cumulative discrimination : how special schooling influences employment and wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Brüggemann, Christian - 2013

Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other - or both. A number of studies have found that significant labour market inequalities persist even...

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Ethnic employment gaps of graduates in the Netherlands

Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020

This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 …-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish … education, which is a group of graduates with many people from ethnic minorities. We document ethnic employment gaps by using an …

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … prejudice is quantitatively more important than skill differences to explain wage and employment gaps. In the final section of …

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Racial discrimination and White first name adoption : evidence from a correspondence study in the Australian labour market

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Ooi, Evarn; Slonim, Robert - 2020

may help formulate policies for parental investments and employers' education to reduce employment and wage gaps observed …

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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe

O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013

above – and employment rates and wages far below – those of majority populations. One issue which has received relatively … attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …

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Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence

Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020

Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed...

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First depressed, then discriminated against?

Baert, Stijn; De Visschere, Sarah; Schoors, Koen; Omey, Eddy - 2014

This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from fictitious unemployed candidates to real vacancies in Belgium. Within each pair, one candidate cites depression as the reason for her/his unemployment, whereas the other candidate...

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Market competition and discrimination

Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition by providing a quality rating and a price quote for...

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Using matched employer-employee data to study labor market discrimination

Hellerstein, Judith K. (contributor); … - 2005

wages that remains unexplained after including a wide array of proxies for productivity. What is absent from the residual … any directly observable measure of productivity with which to adjust differentials in wages in trying to infer whether a … particular group suffers from discrimination. The ideal solution would be individual-level productivity data that can be compared …

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