The collection and analysis of observational and experimental data represent the main tools
for assessing the presence, the extent, the nature, and the trend of discrimination …

Background To understand the full impact of stunting in childhood it is important to consider
the long-run effects of undernutrition on the outcomes of adults who were affected in early …

The taller people are, the more money they tend to earn. This phenomenon is widely known
as the height premium. However, it is not yet known whether the height premium is …

This paper studies whether assessing foreign education with its host country equivalent, as
practised in Australia, raises migrants' returns to schooling. Using unawareness between …

Using a novel panel dataset on recent immigrants in Switzerland, we study the relationship
between the degree of skills utilization, the foreign-acquired education and its certification in …

The massive rural-to-urban migration has been one of the most important features of China's
labour market in recent decades. The recent pattern of return migration and migrant wages …

The involvement of women in the academic field has seen them taking up roles formerly
believed to be for men only. Women have expanded their career aspirations shifting from …

This paper examines how employers strategically use immigrant and native workers, within
the empirical setting of the US Diversity Immigrant Visa (DIV) program and the National …

The landscape of paid domestic work has changed considerably in recent years with the
growth in the number of housecleaning service companies in South Africa and elsewhere …

As has been demonstrated by empirical research, height is an important physical feature
impacting various aspects of the life of an individual. This thesis deals with the relationship …