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Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively … mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to …-based and statistical discrimination against the empirical reality. First, we observed that the measurement operationalisation …
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Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We … investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize … measures produce qualitatively similar results, and, opposite to the observational studies, suggests that ethnic discrimination …
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effects of appearance, ethnicity, and veiling simultaneously and propose underlying mechanisms. We find robust effects of …. However, positive characteristics mitigate discrimination against headscarf and even reverse it. …
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from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and … distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant differences in callback rates by ethnicity. These differences vary …
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educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other - or both. A number of studies have found that … discrimination as typically measured, but its main impact is through lowering Roma educational attainment suggesting an additional … and labour market discrimination per se but as a complex outcome of cumulative discrimination. In contrast to previous …
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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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influence of applicant race and ethnicity on teacher hiring. First, we uncover robust evidence of discrimination: black and … employers of using race and ethnicity as signals of teacher productivity. …This paper examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labor market for center-based child care teachers. We …
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most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination … attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …
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major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent … difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor … white candidates from less selective universities. Moreover, race results in a double penalty: When employers respond to …
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