Employment Discrimination, Segregation, and Health

Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation

Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm’s 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects for several departments and job titles at each store. We first compare the rates at which Hispanic and white non-Hispanic managers ...

Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their need to combine work with child care, in southern Europe part-time jobs are often involuntary and provi...

Discrimination in Employment

Sex Discrimination in Employment: Survey and Analysis

With its socio-economic development, the issue of China’s female discrimination in labor employment field is increasingly significant. This present paper identifies the status quo of females in employment, salary, career development, retirement age, and other respects and problems on the basis of a survey on Shandong women employment in a variety of enterprises. Then it continues an objective a...

Employment discrimination against immigrants 1 Running head: Employment discrimination against immigrants The Skill Paradox: Explaining and Reducing Employment Discrimination against skilled Immigrants

Using a social identity theory approach, we theorized that recruiters might be particularly biased against skilled immigrant applicants. We refer to this phenomenon as a skill paradox, according to which immigrants are more likely to be targets of employment discrimination the more skilled they are. Furthermore, building on the common ingroup identity model, we proposed that this paradox can be...