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regarding pay discrimination against rural migrants. This paper uses data from a random draw of the 2005 Chinese national census … survey to shed more light on the discrimination issue, by making comparisons of earnings and the sector of work between rural … discrimination against rural migrants compared to urban residents. However, rural migrants are found to be discriminated in terms of …
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Informal employment is a reality for roughly two-thirds of economically active youth in urban Egypt, and it has been argued to be correlated with poverty, poor working conditions, and few opportunities for advancement. This essay analyzes whether informal employment rewards job qualification...
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In a brief period of time after the 2001-2002 crisis, there was a dramatic fall in informal salaried employment in Argentina. Informal employment—also called “non-registered employment”—refers to employment for which no social security contribution is made. This indicator dropped by...
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between Greek workers and different groups of immigrants. We use information about 8,429 individuals of which 1,185 are … immigrants. The data are drawn from the Greek Labor Force Survey (2009). The main objective is to explore how much of the … immigrants’ earnings. Our results provide empirical evidence that the part of the wage gap due to differences in the coefficients …
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. Immigrants are often discriminated against in housing, education, health and work. The perceptive aspect (how much immigrants … were conducted. A strong negative relationship between level of job satisfaction and level of perceived discrimination …
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or sexual discrimination …
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reveals that discrimination and education have an influence on the labor market outcomes of this ethnic group, and social … networks also play a key role, via ethnic and cross-ethnic social contacts and family background. Discrimination and family …
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Being able to read and write is one of the most important skills in modern economies. Literacy frequently is a prerequisite for employment and its relevance for productivity and wages is magnified by the fact that it is only through literacy that many other skills become usable. More so than for...
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, this paper develops a dynamic model of statistical discrimination and examines how initial economic standings of groups and … initial institutionalized discrimination affect subsequent dynamics. …
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discrimination or unfavourable labour market conditions which is creating the wage differential. Only an inclusive growth strategy …
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