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We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those from other urban areas (urban migrants). We find that both rural and urban migrants are...
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discrimination in the labor market. Changes in tariffs and initial employment structures are used to show that, in locations where … its decline were more pronounced in regions with more employment in concentrated sectors. The effect of increased … competition on the racial wage gap was not driven by changes in returns to productive attributes, in the structure of employment …
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This paper investigates effects of appearance and religious practice of job applicants on the hiring decision. We asked participants in our laboratory experiment to select fictitious candidates for an interview from a pool of CVs with comparable characteristics but different photos. Some photos...
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employers of using race and ethnicity as signals of teacher productivity. …
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At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....
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