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ItemTesting for employee discrimination using matched employer-employee data: theory and evidenceFrijters, Paul ; Shields, Michael A. ; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos ; Price, Stephen Wheatley ( 2004-09)We use recent matched employer-employee data to directly investigate if white workershave a taste for racial discrimination in Britain. Based on a new structural model withindividual and firm heterogeneity, we develop and test two predictions. Firstly, whiteemployees with a taste for discrimination should report lower levels of job satisfaction thelarger the proportion of ethnic minorities at their workplace. Secondly, white employeeswould have to be compensated by higher wages if required to work alongside ethnic minorityco-workers. Both hypotheses are clearly supported for white males in our data, aftercomprehensively controlling for individual, job, and workplace characteristics. However,the evidence is weaker for females. The white male wage premium for working amongstonly ethnic minority co-workers, as compared to working only with whites, is about 12%.Importantly, it appears that neither of these effects operates via realised racial prejudiceat the workplace or white employees’ feelings concerning their job security.
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ItemTo teach or not to teach? Panel data evidence on the quitting decisionFRIJTERS, PF ; SHIELDS, M ; WHEATLEY PRICE, S (Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 2004)
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ItemDoes problem drinking affect employment? Evidence from EnglandMacDonald, Z ; Shields, MA (Wiley, 2004-02-01)
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ItemCan the large swings in russian life satisfaction be explained by ups and downs in real incomes?Frijters, P ; Geishecker, I ; Haisken-DeNew, JP ; Shields, MA (WILEY, 2006)Abstract Russians reported large changes in their life satisfaction over the post‐transition years. In this paper, we explore the factors that drove these changes, focusing on exogenous income changes, using panel data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey over the period 1995 to 2001 and implementing a recently developed ordinal fixed‐effects estimator. We apply a causal decomposition technique that allows for bias arising from panel attrition when establishing aggregate trends in life satisfaction. Changes in real household incomes explained 10% of the total change in reported life satisfaction between 1996 and 2000, but up to 30% of some year‐on‐year changes.
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ItemThe causal effect of income on health: evidence from German reunificationFRIJTERS, P. F. ; HAISKEN-DENEW, J. P. ; SHIELDS, M. ( 2005)
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ItemJob search methods and their success: A comparison of immigrants and natives in the UKFrijters, P ; Shields, MA ; Price, SW (BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2005-11)
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ItemAddressing nurse shortages: What can policy makers learn from the econometric evidence on nurse labour supply?Shields, MA (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2004-11)
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ItemInvestigating the patterns and determinants of life satisfaction in Germany following reunificationFrijters, P ; Haisken-DeNew, JP ; Shields, MA (UNIV WISCONSIN PRESS, 2004-01-01)
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ItemMoney does matter! Evidence from increasing real income and life satisfaction in East Germany following reunificationFrijters, P ; Haisken-DeNew, JP ; Shields, MA (AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC, 2004-06)