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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-016-0602-3
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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 August 2016 | ||||||||
| 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 |
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