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Aeberhardt, Romain, Coudin, Elise and Rathelot, Roland (2017) The heterogeneity of ethnic unemployment gaps. Journal of Population Economics, 30 (1). pp. 307-337. doi:10.1007/s00148-016-0602-3 ISSN 0933-1433.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Minorities -- Employment -- Statistics -- France, Discrimination in employment -- Statistics -- France
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Population Economics
Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISSN: 0933-1433
Official Date: January 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
January 2017Published
20 June 2016Available
23 May 2016Accepted
Volume: 30
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 307-337
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-016-0602-3
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 12 August 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 20 June 2017

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