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. Interestingly, discrimination occurs only in male to male interaction. For offers below half, or almost half of the allocated … no support for female discrimination. This result suggests that social status has important implications for men …
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This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 … countries. We employ measures of discrimination of women in the economy, in politics, and in society more generally. According … to our results, discrimination in politics is important to individual well-being. Overall, men and women are more …
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countries, still give plenty of scope for trade discrimination. For non-tariff barriers there is substantial scope for … discrimination within and beyond the transitional arrangements of the Uruguay Round agreements, as well as under free trade … (that is discriminatory) arrangements suggests there is a real possibility that the negative aspects of discrimination could …
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We rigorously test for ethnic discrimination in high school grading in Sweden. A random sample of the national tests in … compared to students with foreign background. This discrimination effect is sizeable, and explains the entire difference in …
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In order to get a more complete picture of how labor supply is affected by economic incentives, the effects on absenteeism and not just on contracted hours should be taken into account. In particular, absenteeism due to sick leave can be considerable. In this paper we examine whether the level...
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This paper tests the null hypothesis of no horisontal inequity in delivery of health care by use of count data Hurdle models and swedish micro data. It differs from most earlier work in three principal ways: First, the tests are carried out separately for physician and hospital care; second, the...
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This paper presents an infinite-horizon version of intergenerational utilitarianism. By studying discounted utilitarianism as the discount factor tends to one, we obtain a welfare criterion --- limit-discounted utilitarianism (LDU) --- that is analytically tractable, respects the Pareto order,...
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This paper provides axiomatic descriptions of social welfare relations, defined on infinite streams of utility, that are consistent with the utilitarian criterion on subsets where maximizing aggregate utility has a clear interpretation: the streams, or their differences, are summable. Besides...
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This paper identifies the pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important...
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Sweden's income distribution for the whole population and for subgroups, including its immigrants, has been extensively studied. The interest in this area has grown with increasing availability of data, including panels. The previous studies are based on indices of inequality or mobility. While...
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