The heterogeneity of ethnic employment gaps.

Autor/inn/en	Aeberhardt, Romain; Coudin, Elise; Rathelot, Roland
Institution	Centre de recherche en économie et statistique (Paris)
Titel	The heterogeneity of ethnic employment gaps. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Heterogenität ethnisch begründeter Beschäftigungsunterschiede.
Quelle	Malakoff Cedex (2014), 31 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique. Serie des documents de travail. 2014-23
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Frankreich; Qualifikation; Afrikaner; Einkommensunterschied; Ethnische Gruppe; Herkunftsland; Heterogenität; Minderheit; Einkommensunterschied; Erwerbstätiger; Lohndiskriminierung; Qualifikation; Heterogenität; Ethnische Gruppe; Minderheit; Afrikaner; Migrant; Frankreich; Herkunftsland
Abstract	This paper investigates how the ethnic gap in employment rates varies across skill levels. Instead of stratifying our sample in many dimensions (age groups, education levels...), we introduce a method that allows us to study the heterogeneity of binary outcomes with respect to all covariates at once. We apply this method to French men, 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-skill than for high-skill ones. One should not conclude from these empirical facts that the underlying economic phenomenon is intrinsically heterogeneous: such results could theoretically be obtained if the ratio of the hiring probabilities between the minority and the majority groups does not depend on workers' skills. Empirically, we find that this ratio is likely to be constant or slightly decreasing with skills. These results are consistent with a simple taste-based discrimination model but are less easy to reconcile with a statistical discrimination model. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/2