The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly …

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 …

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 …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … accounted for by a single proximate cause − rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act … on public works participation, labor force participation, and real wages of casual workers by exploiting its phased … significant positive impact on the wages of female casual workers-real wages of female casual workers increased 8% more in NREGA …