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discrimination and disadvantages endured by the poor, minorities, women, the disabled and people with HIV/AIDS. It proposes …
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Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and makes them more likely to incur public health and social service costs. Who's In and Who's Out...
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This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new … findings that confirm some of the common perceptions regarding discrimination but challenge the conventional wisdom in other … less than inhabitants of other regions, and the discrimination that does occur appears largely to stem from lack of …
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This paper uses an experimental field approach to investigate the pro-social preferences and behavior of social services providers and the behavior of potential beneficiaries in Bogota, Colombia. Field experiments were conducted using games including a newly designed Distributive Dictator Game...
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discrimination at the higher salary jobs at any given skill level. The authors also find that returns to education vary significantly …
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The objective of this paper is to better understand peer popularity during adolescence and detect discrimination. The … in some specifications. The findings are informative about discrimination in the school system. In particular, it appears …
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This paper analyzes gender differences in three Chilean professional labor markets, business, law and medicine, utilizing a new and rich data set collected for this purpose. The results show that differences in wages attributed to gender are only present in the legal profession. In...
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This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...
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Argentina has taken steps to increase women's participation in politics. In 1991, it established that 30% of the candidate list for the Chamber of Deputies had to be women. As a consequence of the measure, the percentage of women deputies has increased from 5.44% in 1991/93 to 27% in 1995/97. At...
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