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Pure ethnic gaps in educational attainment and school to work transitions: When do they arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 276-294
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions in Belgium between grandchildren of natives and of women of “non-Western” nationality into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual “pure ethnic gap”. It innovates...
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Native-Immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the 2nd generation : the role of gender and ethnicity
Baert, Stijn; Heiland, Frank W.; Korenman, Sanders - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 164 (2016) 2, pp. 159-186
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Chapter 5. Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey
Fang, Hanming; Moro, Andrea - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 133-200). 2011
This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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Pure ethnic gaps in educational attainment and school to work transitions : when do they arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - In: Economics of education review 36 (2013), pp. 276-294
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361110
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Diferenciales salariales por género y región en Colombia: una aproximación con regresión por cuantiles
Galvis, Luis Armando - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL ROSARIO (2010)
attributed to the existence of discrimination as there exist factors that explain part of the wage gap. To identify the relevance … well the existence of discrimination by gender, thus this result deserves special attention for the purposes of gender …
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Statistical Discrimination or Prejudice? A Large Sample Field Experiment
Ewens, Michael; Tomlin, Bryan; Wang, Liang Choon - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 1, pp. 119-134
A model of racial discrimination provides testable implications for two features of statistical discriminators ….S. rental apartment market that distinguishes statistical discrimination from taste-based discrimination. Responses from over 14 … signal type in a manner consistent with statistical discrimination and in contrast to patterns predicted by a model of taste …
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Leadership behavior as a health-promoting resource for workers in low-skilled jobs and the moderating role of power distance orientation 96-116
Winkler, Eva; Busch, Christine; Clasen, Julia; … - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 28 (2014) 1-2, pp. 96-116
In this study, the authors analyze leadership behaviors as potential health-promoting resources for low-skilled workers in a highly culturally diverse work setting. The authors hypothesize that subordinates’ and supervisors’ individual power distance orientations will moderate the effect of...
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Utilising self-report data to measure racial discrimination in the labour market
Habtegiorgis, Amanuel E.; Paradies, Yin - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 16 (2013) 1, pp. 5-41
Although economists have developed a series of approaches to modelling the existence of labour market discrimination … market discrimination, we examine self-reported experience of discrimination at different stages in the labour market, among … African Americans and Caribbean blacks consistently report more experience of discrimination in the labour market than their …
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Institutional Change, Stature, and Northeast Industrialization: Evidence from the 19th Century Philadelphia County Prison
Carson, Scott Alan - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 167 (2011) 4, pp. 630-646
This article considers the relationship between stature, race, institutional change, and proximity to urban centers during economic development. A new data set of male inmates from the 19th century Philadelphia County prison is introduced to compare black and white statures during...
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Detectando discriminación sexual y racial en el mercado laboral de Lima
Galarza, Francisco; Kogan, Liuba; Yamada, Gustavo - In: Discriminación en el Perú: Exploraciones en el …
El Perú ha experimentado un prolongado y complejo proceso de mestizaje desde el inicio de la época colonial en el siglo XVI, cuyo reflejo es un amplio espectro racial que dificulta la investigación de la discriminación racial en el mercado laboral peruano. Asimismo, el Perú ha registrado un...
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