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determinants of earnings among male Cuban immigrants in the United States by race. Nonwhite Cuban immigrants earn about 15 percent … immigrants also have lower returns to education than whites. A comparison to white, non-Hispanic U.S. natives indicates that …
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Purpose – This editorial aims to introduce the special issue on employment discrimination against immigrants. Design …/methodology/approach – The first part is a commentary on key issues in the study of employment discrimination against immigrants. The second part … associated with employment discrimination against immigrants. For example, they consider: discrimination based on accents …
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Purpose – Although statistical evidence clearly demonstrates discrimination against foreign‐accented individuals in the workplace, surprisingly little research attention has been paid to how such individuals are evaluated when they apply for jobs. Thus, the aim of this paper is to examine...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the invisibility of immigrants in diversity research in the …, exploitation, and abuse of low‐skilled Hispanic immigrants in the USA, are examined. Considerations of what can be applied to the … study of immigrants from extant diversity research are explored. Findings – Experiences of Hispanic immigrants to the USA …
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determinants of earnings among male Cuban immigrants in the United States by race. Nonwhite Cuban immigrants earn about 15 percent … immigrants also have lower returns to education than whites. A comparison to white, non-Hispanic U.S. natives indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005721723
This study examined whether the demand for more educated science and engineering workers outweighed longstanding practices of discrimination in hiring in high technology industries and science and engineering occupations. The study focused on the effects of education on the distribution of...
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This paper introduces and proposes a policy application for a new Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Index. The index is comprised of multiple measures of employers' human resource management outcomes and is designed to reflect employers' systemic EEO efforts. The index is applied to industry...
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This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate gender differences in salaries and promotion for academics in the humanities. Differences in employment outcomes by gender are evaluated using three methods: the Oaxaca decomposition is used to examine salary differentials,...
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Workers with limited English skills may suffer adverse effects in the labor market when states declare English the official language. If employers view official English laws as allowing or requiring them to adopt workplace English-only rules that lower the demand for limited-English-proficient...
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This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate differences in employment outcomes for academic scientists by gender. A decomposition of estimated salary differences shows that over time, gender salary differences can partly be explained by differences in observable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397497