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Estimating gender differences in access to jobs: females trapped at the bottom of the ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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(Petite) histoire de la discrimination (dans les assurances)

Pradier, Pierre-Charles - HAL - 2011

Une étude de l'histoire de la discrimination dans l'assurance montre que les données actuarielles sont rarement … suffisantes pour justifier dans le public cette discrimination. On étudie en particulier la discrimination à l'égard des femmes à …'acceptabilité sociale de la discrimination dans les assurances. …

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How Can Gender Discrimination Explain Fertility Behaviors and Family-friends Policies ?

Recoules, Magali - HAL - 2008

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …

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Indiscriminate Discrimination: A Correspondence Test for Ethnic Homophily in the Chicago Labor Market

Jacquemet, Nicolas; Yannelis, Constantine - HAL - 2012

Numerous field experiments have demonstrated the existence of discrimination in labor markets against specific minority … groups. This paper uses a correspondence test to determine whether this discrimination is due to prejudice against specific …

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Private vs. Public Sector : Discrimination against Second-Generation Immigrants in France

Berson, Clémence - HAL - 2009

The assimilation of immigrants and their children is a burning issue in France. Governments build a large part of their policies on the labor market. The public sector is reputed to integrate minorities better because of its entrance exams and pay-scales. In this paper, a comparison of the...

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Note de lecture : "Pap Ndiaye, La condition noire. Essai sur une minorité française, Calmann-Lévy, 2008"

Perez, Coralie - HAL - 2008

discrimination d'un groupe, ici les Noirs de France métropolitaine. Face aux réticences à une catégorisation publique du fait ethno …

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Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets

Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - HAL - 2013

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...

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Do professors really perpetuate the gender gap in science? Evidence from a natural experiment in a French higher education institution

Breda, Thomas; Ly, Son Thierry - HAL - 2012

experiment, we show the opposite: discrimination goes in favor of females in more male-connoted subjects (e.g. math, philosophy … between science and humanities majors. We identify discrimination by systematic differences in students' scores between oral … each subject and for her overall ability at oral exams. The mechanisms likely to drive this positive discrimination toward …

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Economic Comparison and Group Identity: Lessons from India

Fontaine, Xavier; Yamada, Katsunori - HAL - 2012

economic comparison triggers the actual caste-based behaviours (castes' political demands, discrimination). …

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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