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confined to issues of sex discrimination; rather it is of relevance for all labor markets where labor heterogeneity is …
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Being beautiful gives a person an advantage in many settings. Attractive people earn more and have an easier time getting hired. People spend large amounts of money on goods and services to enhance their beauty. Is this enhancement worth pursuing? Research suggests that the expected improvement...
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Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory … practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in …
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drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use …
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the economy. Consistent with Becker's (1957) theory of racial discrimination, we find that in economies where employers …
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for the first time to derive equilibrium discrimination by a dominant group and separatism by a weaker group. Consistent …
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sector ethnic and gender discrimination. Hence, the current move towards privatization of nationalized industries in Trinidad …
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One of the core goals of a universal health care system is to eliminate discrimination on the basis of socioeconomic … status. We test for discrimination using patient waiting times for non-emergency treatment in public hospitals. Waiting time …
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several researchers showed the importance, in the United States, of the number of times scholars' publications are cited for determining their bargaining power in academia. Not surprisingly, the question was soon raised whether citations are a good measure of...
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limit discrimination in the workplace based on race, gender, disability and age. If such measures are to be effective in … ending discrimination, they need to be enforced. The latter is dependent on state and federal agencies such as the Equal … important role in the evolution of anti-discrimination policy since past decisions create future precedent. This paper asks …
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