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Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that … by economic theory, but “the hypothesis of employer discrimination does not at all explain segregation by occupation …
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discrimination, the conceptual reach of economic theory needs extension. I propose a generalization by assigning non … discrimination. …
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monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions … dominated by gender discrimination among household members. Estimates for Chile show a substantial worsening of poverty and … inequality under such allocation rules. This suggests that intra-household discrimination deserves some of the attention …
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discrimination, personal freedoms and power, among others, which are impossible to explain at a formal level on the basis of an …
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-Blinder decomposition technique is used. We find that the unexplained part, which is often related to discrimination is lower for graduates …
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. However, the ‘residual effect’ after accounting for effect of explanatory variables - often referred to as ‘discrimination …
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mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the …
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the conflicts …
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Wal-Mart symbolizes the strength of economic and commercial activity in any region. Wal-Mart has built a business empire on its low-cost model. Customers love Wal-Mart stores for its low prices. At the same time, Wal-Mart is under a barrage of criticism for labor practices and indirect burdens...
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