Nettsider med emneord «discrimination»

In this article, Edvard Larsen and co-authors assess the common assumption that names commonly used to signal race/ethnicity, in experiments, differ only based on perceived race and not some other factor. They find that such names also influence perceptions about socioeconomic status and social class.

In this paper, Edvard Larsen and co-authors investigate how the amount and type of social science research on discrimination has changed over time. The results of their analysis show that over time, social scientists across fields are increasingly producing research that engages with the concept of discrimination, and that they write more about discrimination against some groups than others.

In this working paper, JooHee Han and Are Skeie Hermansen uses linked employer-employee data from Norway to investigate immigrant-native wage gaps across immigrant generations and market segments. Their findings can be read below. 

Under which conditions are ethnic minorities discriminated? By analyzing discrimination across a large number of ethnic groups and various dimensions of ethnicity in 5 countries this project will advance our understanding of ethnic inequality as a central barrier to the optimal functioning of the European labour market and thus to growth and innovation

The researchers of EUMARGINS will collect a great set of information concerning young immigrants' experiences. The qualitative part of the project is a combination of a biographical and an ethnographical research design. Recruitment of informants and data collection will take place from January 2009 to September 2010.