Arbeitspapier
The heterogeneity of ethnic employment gaps
This paper investigates the heterogeneity of ethnic employment gaps using a new single-index based approach. Instead of stratifying our sample by age or education, we study ethnic employment gaps along a continuous measure of employability, the employment probability minority workers would have if their characteristics were priced as in the majority group. We apply this method to French males, comparing those whose parents are North African immigrants and those with native parents. We find that both the raw and the unexplained ethnic employment differentials are larger for low-employability workers than for high-employability ones. We show in a theoretical framework that this heterogeneity can be accounted for by homogeneous underlying mechanisms and is not evidence for, say, heterogeneous discrimination. Finally, we discuss our main empirical findings in the light of simple taste-based vs. statistical discrimination models.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 10/16
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Labor Discrimination: General
Labor Discrimination
- Thema
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discrimination
employment differentials
decomposition
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Aeberhardt, Romain
Coudin, Elise
Rathelot, Roland
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
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London
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2016
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Aeberhardt, Romain
- Coudin, Elise
- Rathelot, Roland
- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Entstanden
- 2016
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