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Work out or out of work : the labor market return to physical fitness and leisure sport activities
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010
given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport … explanation emerges when analyzing register data on adult earnings and physical fitness when enlisting at age 18. The fitness … social skills. -- Leisure sports ; physical fitness ; cardiovascular fitness ; correspondence testing ; earnings …
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Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities
Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport … explanation emerges when analyzing register data on adult earnings and physical fitness when enlisting at age 18. The fitness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543255
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Work Out or Out of Work : The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010
given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport … explanation emerges when analyzing register data on adult earnings and physical fitness when enlisting at age 18. The fitness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148350
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Work out or out of work : the labour market return to physical fitness and leisure sports activities
Rooth, Dan-Olof - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 18 (2011) 3, pp. 399-409
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248301
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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269375
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The impact of being monitored on discriminatory behavior among employers: evidence from a natural experiment
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2009
Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269199
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Weight, attractiveness, and gender when hiring : a field experiment in Spain
Goulão, Catarina; Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; … - 2023
Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278001
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Employer attitudes, the marginal employer and the ethnic wage gap
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282374
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Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: A correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282591
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Employer attitudes, the marginal employer and the ethnic wage gap
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523459