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Measuring racial bias in employment services in Colombia

Duryea, Suzanne; Millán-Quijano, Jaime; Morrison, Judith; … - 2024

In this paper, we document de facto, implicit, and explicit racial biases within the public employment service in …

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Measuring labor market discrimination against LGTBQ+ in the case of Ecuador : a field experiment

Zanoni, Wladimir; Hernández, Hugo; Zambrano, Omar; … - 2023

This paper presents the findings of an artifactual field experiment conducted in urban Ecuador to investigate discrimination against LGBTQ+ (here restricted to individuals self-identified as gay or lesbian) job seekers in the labor market. Focusing on occupations and sectors where LGBTQ + and...

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Discrimination and skill differences in an equilibrium search model

Bowlus, Audra J.; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 1998

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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago

Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018

In the light of Trinidad and Tobago’s colonial history, its labour market is characterized by two about equal sized majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay...

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Job market discrimination against slum dwellers in urban Argentina

Zanoni, Wladimir; Acevedo, Paloma; Hernández, Hugo - 2022

. Discrimination against slum dwellers is an invisible barrier that affects their employment probability, ultimately reducing their …

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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America

Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...

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Gender and racial differences in the earnings penalty of working from home before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Maia, Alexandre Gori; Lu, Yao - 2024

between supply and demand, as more women than men transitioned to WFH during the pandemic; ii) labor productivity, as the …

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Nudging the agents : does it reduce discrimination against migrants in the house rental market?

Zanoni, Wladimir; Díaz, Lina; Díaz, Emily; Paredes, Jorge - 2023

This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in the screening of home rental applications conducted by Ecuadorian real estate agents (REAs). Given that Venezuelan migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally,...

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Gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes in the United States : the impact of employers' prejudice

Flabbi, Luca; Tejada, Mauricio - 2012

This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...

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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps … education gaps in employment between high and lower education levels would raise the employment rate in the EU for the year 2022 …

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