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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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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 l'aide de deux exemples. Le premier est...
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The caste issue dominates a large part of India's social and political life. Caste shapes one's identity. Furthermore, strong tensions exist between castes. Using subjective well-being data, we assess the role economic comparisons play in this society. We focus on both within and between-castes...
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Nous mesurons la discrimination à l'embauche selon l'aptitude à la mobilité, signalée dans le CV par la possession d'un permis moto, sur la base d'un testing réalisé fin 2008 et début 2009 pour des profils de jeunes contrôleurs de gestion résidant à Paris (300 offres d'emploi...
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Nous effectuons un testing afin de mesurer la discrimination dans l'accès à l'emploi des jeunes de banlieue parisienne en considérant à la fois leur origine et leur lieu de résidence. Nous mesurons simultanément les effets du lieu de résidence (banlieue favorisée ou non), de la...
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This study uses the findings of a correspondence testing in order to assess the potential discrimination at job access level against young people of ethnic origin from the underprivileged suburbs of the Paris area (Ile-de-France). We measure simultaneously the effects of place of residence...
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Chaque année, l'Etat et les collectivités territoriales allouent un budget non négligeable au financement de l'enseignement privé élémentaire et secondaire sous contrat (respectivement 6 663 et 1 483 millions d'euros en 2008). Parmi les contreparties figure pour ces établissements...
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We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...
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In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...
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In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...
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