Determinants of market participation and intensity of marketed surplus of smallholder chickpea producers in Este woreda

Signaling Similarity in the Icelandic Labour Market: How Can Immigrants Reduce Statistical Discrimination?

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v17i2.761 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 349-356

Author(s):

Kari Kristinsson ◽

Margret Sigrun Sigurdardottir

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Immigrant Integration ◽

Statistical Discrimination ◽

Hiring Decisions ◽

Market Participation ◽

Job Experience ◽

Labour Market Participation ◽

Signal Similarity

Research on immigration has emphasized the role that statistical discrimination plays in hiring decisions. A better understanding of how immigrants overcome this type of discrimination might lead to better interventions to improve their labour market participation. In this paper, we use qualitative interviews to examine how immigrants can reduce statistical discrimination by signalling their similarity to employers in their job applications. Specifically, we find that immigrants who demonstrate signal similarity to employers in the type of education, job experience and religion tend to reduce their statistical discrimination by employers. We suggest how further research can build on these results to provide possible tools for immigrant integration.

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Trust, Sociability, and Stock Market Participation

CFA Digest ◽

10.2469/dig.v42.n2.9 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 18-20

Author(s):

Sadaf Aliuddin

Keyword(s):

Stock Market ◽

Market Participation ◽

Stock Market Participation

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Exploring gender digital divide and its effect on women's labour market outcomes in South Africa

African Journal of Gender, Society and Development (formerly Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa) ◽

10.31920/2634-3622/2020/v9n4a4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 85-108

Author(s):

Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso ◽

Jimi Adesina ◽

Ololade G. Adewole

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Labour Market ◽

Married Women ◽

Internet Usage ◽

Market Participation ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Broadband Internet ◽

Variable Approach ◽

Labour Market Participation ◽

Labour Market Outcomes

Technology plays a significant role in bridging gender gap in labour market outcomes. This paper investigates gender differential in broadband Internet usage and its effects on women‘s labour market participation. Employing an instrumental variable approach, findings suggest that exogenously determined high-speed broadband internet usage leads to increases of about 14.1 and 10.6 percentage points in labour market participation for single women and married women with some level of education, respectively. Moreover, further analyses suggest that married women are generally less likely to use the Internet to search for job opportunities and this could partly explains their low labour market participation rate. The findings suggest that more policy effort is required to bridge gender differentials in digital technologies and employment opportunities in South Africa.

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